Kenyan among 2020 'Green Oscars' Award global winnersA Kenyan conservationist has emerged among global winners of a prestigious conservation award. Dr Abdullahi Ali Hussein (), founder of Hirola Conservation Programme, emerged a winner of 2020 Whitley Award that recognises wildlife conservation leaders. Mr Hussein’s project on conserving one of world’s most endangered species, the hirola antelope, emerged among the six best this year across the globe. Often referred to as the ‘Green Oscars’ this year’s Whitley award recognised Hussein’s Hirola conservation project along the Kenya-Somalia border alongside other wildlife conservation projects of exemplary conservationists in Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, Bhutan and South Africa. “Winning the Whitley Award means everything to me as an indigenous conservationist in this region and also means a lot to the local communities who have taken up a role in saving this endangered species,” he said.

Source: Standard Digital May 03, 2020 21:00 UTC