adminThe acclaimed wildlife conservationists would receive the prestigious honour and US$100 000.
In addition to that, each recipient would be awarded the Lilly Medal, an original work of art that signifies the winner’s contributions to conserving some of the world’s most threatened animals.
In a statement, Indianapolis Prize account manager, Emily Collins, said the two have been nominated for their outstanding devotion to animal conservation.
“The two are part of the 29 conservationists who have devoted their lives to saving the earth’s endangered species and have been nominated to receive the biennial Indianapolis Prize, the leading award for animal conservation,” said Collins.
She said conservationists the world over were facing several challenges such as poaching, civil wars, negative weather conditions and pollution.
Hywood is the founder and managing trustee of the Tikki Hywood Trust, a non-profit making organisation offering a fresh and a positive approach to Zimbabwean conservation.
She has been recognised for her tireless work to preserve Zimbabwe’s wildlife by utilising education and conservation as a stepping stone toward creating harmony between humans and wildlife.
During the 1992 drought, Hywood assisted with the movement of about 700 elephants out of danger zones where they would have perished from dangerously dry conditions.
Dr Jackson, the founder-director of the Snow Leopard Conservancy, has been nominated as the world’s foremost expert on snow leopards, the elusive, endangered big cat that serves as a flagship species for Central Asia’s high mountains.
He has twice been a finalist for the biennial prize, first in 2008 and again in 2010.
Dr Jackson was the first to radio-collar leopards, which provided a non-evasive study technique that led to the first in-depth film on the species.-The Chronicle
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