Each year, the Arbor Day Foundation honors top individuals and organizations involved in exemplary tree planting and environmental practices.
The J. Sterling Morton award recognizes an individual who has had a positive impact on the environment due to his or her lifelong commitment to tree planting and conservation.
Using his expertise as a veterinarian and geneticist at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska, Ed Louis has embraced the island of Madagascar’s biodiversity and the challenge to conserve it. The programs he developed have helped plant more than 2 million trees, discovered more than two dozen animal species, supported 68 graduate students, employed 166 Malagasy people full-time and 207 part-time, and engaged more than 3,000 Malagasy citizens in planting trees and monitoring lemurs.
Learn more at arborday.org/awards.
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27 май 2019
