Strong, resilient women are leading the way to a better future with support from the Rolex Awards for Enterprise. Rolex Awards - Women changing the world.It is easy to sell the allure of Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula to tourists in search of an adventure holiday: National Geographic once described the area as “the most biologically intense place on Earth”. Six of the world’s best cave divers spent two weeks on a Perpetual Planet-supported expedition mapping cave systems and taking water samples from sinkholes that were explored for the first time in the modern era.Įmerald rainforests, turquoise waters lapping on to secluded beaches, blissful snorkelling and scuba diving. Pollution from cities and tourism is contaminating the aquifer that is Yucatán’s sole source of fresh water. In the face of rampant urbanization and the severe consequences of climate change, Indian environmentalist Arun Krishnamurthy has mobilized the public, including scores of young volunteers, to help clean, restore and rehabilitate his country’s lakes.įollowing a distress call informing him that his cousin had died in a road accident where no bystanders came forward to support the victim, Piyush Tewari was propelled into finding solutions to this problem in India and has since dedicated himself to saving thousands of lives across the country and beyond.Īnita Studer, a Swiss ornithologist who went to Brazil to study its rich array of bird life, has, through sheer determination and dedication, inspired Brazilians to save their forests and changed thousands of lives for the better in what is now her second home. Rolex is supporting its Perpetual Planet initiative partner, the National Geographic Society, as it embarks on a critical, two-year study of the Amazon River Basin.
Perpetual Planet initiative partner Mission Blue is throwing the spotlight on protection of the fabled Sargasso Sea with the arrival of the Sargasso Sea Commission as its formal Champion.