Juan Mayr

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Juan Mayr (born in Bogotá, 1952) is a Colombian photographer and politician. From 1993 to 1996, Mayr was elected vice-president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). In 1998 he became Minister of the Environment of Colombia. He has also been president of the United Nation's conference on biosafety.^[1]

[edit] Goldman Prize

Mayr was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993,^[2] for leading a struggle for protecting biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. He lived two years with the Kogi, and founded the Fundación Pro-Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in 1986. In 1994 the Colombian government returned 19,500 hectares of traditional lands to the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Mark Coatney: "'Frankenfood' Gets Labels___ Sort Of" Time Magazine - January, 2000 (Retrieved on January 4, 2008)
2. ^ ^{a b} Goldman Environmental Prize – South & Central America 1993: "Juan Mayr" (Retrieved on January 4, 2008)