Conferment of the IUCN highest award
The 2020 oldest and the highest award within the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) schemes, the John C. Phillips Memorial Gold Medal, was awarded to Prof. Alfred A. Oteng-Yeboah of the Department of Plant and Environmental Biology, University of Ghana in the French City of Marseille, on Wednesday 8 September 2021.
John C. Phillips Memorial Gold Medal
This award is given every four years since its inception in 1963 during every World Conservation Congress (IUCN-WCC). With this conferment, Prof. A. A. Oteng-Yeboah has become the 18th recipient, the second African, and the first from South of the Sahara. Some of the past recipients have included Mrs. Indira Gandhi (India) 1984, Professor E. O Wilson (USA) 2000 and Sir David Attenborough (UK) 2012.
We say hearty congratulations to Prof. Alfred A. Yeboah for this award.
Prof. Alfred A. Oteng-Yeboah receiving the award