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UN Foundation's Ted Turner to Receive Rainforest Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award
Washington, D.C., (May 16, 2007) —
Ted Turner, founder of the United Nations Foundation and chairman of the Turner Foundation, Inc., has been selected by the Rainforest Alliance—an important force in the biodiversity conservation movement—for a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Rainforest Alliance first honored Turner with a Green Globe award in 1995. According to the Rainforest Alliance, Turner was selected for his ongoing commitment to conservation, and his influential work as a philanthropist and environmentalist. He is the founder of the United Nations Foundation, which together with Expedia, Inc. leads the World Heritage Alliance (WHA), a coalition of travel industry members dedicated to promoting sustainable tourism to UNESCO World Heritage sites, and the Friends of World Heritage, an online, grassroots advocacy campaign promoting responsible travel to World Heritage sites.
Mr. Turner also chairs the Turner Foundation, Inc., which supports efforts to improve air and water, develop sustainable energy, protect wildlife and create policies to curb population growth, and is chairman of Turner Enterprises Inc., which sustainably manages the two million acres of land Turner owns in 14 western U.S. states and in Argentina.
For more information on the Rainforest Alliance 20th Anniversary Gala, click here.
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UNESCO World Heritage Centre
For more than 30 years, UNESCO and its partners have worked to identify, assess and protect places of outstanding universal value. To date, 183 countries have adhered to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, making it one of the most universal international legal instruments for the protection of cultural and natural heritage. Whilst fully respecting the national sovereignty, the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention recognize that the protection of our World Heritage is the duty of the international community as a whole. There are currently 830 World Heritage sites (644 cultural, 162 natural and 24 mixed properties) in 138 countries. For more information, visit: http://whc.unesco.org
About the World Heritage Alliance for Sustainable Tourism:
The World Heritage Alliance for Sustainable Tourism works to support World Heritage conservation, sustainable tourism, and local economic development for communities in and around World Heritage sites. The UN Foundation and Expedia, Inc. created the World Heritage Alliance for Sustainable Tourism in the Fall of 2005. For more information, visit: www.worldheritagealliance.org.
About the UN Foundation:
The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and also works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. The UN Foundation is a public charity. www.unfoundation.org
About The Rainforest Alliance:
The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. Companies, cooperatives and landowners that participate in our programs meet rigorous standards that conserve biodiversity and provide sustainable livelihoods. For more information, visit: www.rainforest-alliance.org.
Contact information, press only:
Adele Waugaman, UN Foundation, (+1)202.778.1635 or awaugaman@unfoundation.org
For more information:
• UNESCO World Heritage Sites—A full listing of all UNESCO World Heritage sites:
www.whc.unesco.org.
• World Heritage Alliance—Information for travel industry companies and their support of World Heritage conservation: www.worldheritagealliance.org.
• Friends of World Heritage—Information for individuals looking learn about sustainable tourism: www.friendsofworldheritage.org.
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