About the prize
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society was a strong partner in Glen’s conservation work, particularly through its local chapters, which Glen supported right across the country. That’s why the $10,000 Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize is a joint project of WWF-Canada and CPAWS.
Glen focused on tangible conservation accomplishments and distinguished between process, progress and results. So the Glen Davis Leadership Prize is intended to recognize not just improving the decision-making process, or making progress towards protection — as necessary as these steps might be. It rewards efforts that lead to the actual protection of land or marine ecosystems in Canada.
For this reason, the successful candidates for this prize must have demonstrated clear conservation results, or be on the cusp of such accomplishments with help from the $10,000 prize money.
Glen invested in people as individuals and he was known for supporting their costs of living as well as the costs of their work. Likewise, this prize is intended to financially reward a worthy candidate, recognizing that conservation activists often make personal financial sacrifices to do what they do.
This prize was established by WWF-Canada and CPAWS to be given for the first time on the 10th anniversary year of his death to honour Glen’s nationally significant contribution to Canada, and to continue that contribution through worthy individuals who deliver results in the tradition of his legacy. As such, it is one of the most prestigious recognitions of its kind.