Are You the Next James Waight Award Winner?

The Belize Audubon Society is calling for nominations for the prestigious thirty-ninth annual James A. Waight Award. This award celebrates individuals or organizations that make significant contributions to conserving and enhancing Belize’s unique environment. They are looking for Belizeans who are actively involved in environmental conservation and protection. Nominees should also contribute to areas like forest, reef, or coastal zone conservation, pollution control, waste management, ecotourism, the socioeconomic environment, indigenous rights, and socio-cultural protection. The organization is seeking individuals who demonstrate a strong social commitment and can bring innovative, non-traditional approaches to their work. The winner will be announced in February 2025.

 

Dareece Chuc, Communications Director, BAS

“We’re happy again to say that we’re at that point in the year where we are putting out our calls for nominations for our conservation award.  The James A. Waight Conservation Award is an award that we have been presenting to individuals and organizations for over thirty years, and so the nominations have been open since November and the deadline is December twentieth.  We’re hoping that more people will hear about the conservation award, you know, and think about people in your community, in your area of work and see if there is someone that you think is deserving of this recognition.  The award is named in honor of our first president, one of our founding members, and of course, it’s given to individuals or organizations who are doing exemplary work in the field of protecting the environment.”

 

Isani Cayetano

“When is the deadline and by when do we expect a winner to be announced?”

 

Dareece Chuc

“So the deadline is December twentieth and the committee meets in early January to review those nominations and the winner is announced in mid-February.  Of course, we celebrate the winner at an award ceremony on February sixteenth, 2025.”