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Congratulations to 2010 Terwilliger Environmental Award Winner Norm Gershenz!
WildCare is delighted to introduce Norm Gershenz as the 2010 Terwilliger Award Winner!
Please join us and celebrate Norm’s work at this year’s Terwilliger Award Reception at WildCare on Friday, September 10, 2010 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.
About Norm
Norman Gershenz is director, CEO, and, co-founder of SaveNature.Org, the Center for Ecosystem Survival and the Insect Discovery Lab. He has raised more than $3.9 million to help preserve thousands of acres of rainforest and coral reef habitat around the world. In addition, under Norm’s leadership, SaveNature.org education programs (with live bugs) reach thousands of Bay Area children every year, and give kids an opportunity to do something about protecting endangered habitats through its school’s Adopt-an-Acre Program.
Norm was affiliated with the San Francisco Zoo for more than 18 years as an educator, member of the animal care staff, fundraiser (he created Zoo Run), and researcher. Norm has tracked black rhinos in Zimbabwe, chased orangutans in Borneo, and stalked the elusive platypus in Australia. He has handled boas and bobcats, pandas and elephants, snow leopards and koalas, hippos and hornbills. He has worked as a field biologist and naturalist in Borneo, Malaysia, India, Nepal, Peru, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, Panama and Namibia. Norm is a noted gourmet insect chef and a lecturer in biology. He is an expert birder and can spot a beetle at 50 mph. (excepted from savenature.org.)
Click for Nomination Criteria.
Previous Prestigious Award Recipients
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2009 John Muir Laws, California Academy of Sciences |
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2008 Joe Mueller, College of Marin |
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2007 Laurette Rogers, Bay Institute, STRAW |
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2006 Leora Feeney, Friends of the Alameda Wildlife Refuge |
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2005 Zeva Longley, Canal Child Care Center |
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2004 Margaret Goodale, Randall Museum |
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2003 Wendy Dreskin, California Native Plant Society |
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2002 Jeanne Casella, Mary E. Silveira Elementary School and Laura Dax Honda, Manor Elementary School (tie) |
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2001 Dr. Martin Griffin, environmental activist and author |
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