Simona Daniele, an Italian hotelier in Costa Rica, co-founded SalveMonos to protect monkeys from electrocution. What began with T-shirt sales to fund wildlife bridges grew into a conservation organization that rescued thousands of animals and pushed for safer electrical infrastructure.
Carolina Joana da Silva spent her career studying the Pantanal’s floods and the forces reshaping the vast Brazilian wetland. She helped train generations of local researchers and argued that conservation must include the riverside communities whose lives depend on its waters.
Sabine Schoppe, a biologist who championed Palawan’s endangered forest turtles, died at age 63. She co-founded the Katala Foundation, helped establish the species’ first protected area and led the rescue of thousands of trafficked turtles in 2015, leaving a legacy of conservation in the Philippines.