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Future For Nature Awards (FFN Awards)
The Future For Nature Awards, or Future For Nature Award event, are held annually by the Future For Nature Foundation (FFN) to support young and deserving wildlife conservationists across the world. The foundation’s conservation awards are worth €50.000,- each, with three winners every year and are given without conditions. The selection of the winners is done by a national and international selection committee made up by Dutch and international conservation experts.

Each year the FFN Award is awarded to three individuals between 18 and 35 years old that have shown to be committed to protecting species of wild animals and plants by combining talent, ambition and leadership with action to create concrete results for nature conservation. The FFN Foundation rewards the achievements of individual candidates, instead of organisations. In addition to the €50,000 prize money and the FFN sculpture, the award provides the winners international recognition and reinforced linkages to an international conservation network.

The FFN Awards are presented annually during an event in Royal Burgers’ Zoo and are hosted by BBC presenter and conservationist Saba Douglas-Hamilton. The FFN Award event has welcomed several personalities in the field of conservation as guests of honour such as Sir David Attenborough, Dr. Jane Goodall , Frans Lanting , Doutzen Kroes  , Redmond O’Hanlon, Frans Timmermans  , and His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. Established in 2008, FFN has given over €2 million to support the work of nature conservationists benefiting wildlife in more than 30 countries across the world.

List Guest of Honours

 * 2008 - Vivek Menon
 * 2009 - David Attenborough
 * 2010 - Angela Cropper
 * 2011 - Frans de Waal
 * 2012 - Redmond O’Hanlon
 * 2013 - Jane Goodall
 * 2014 - Iain Douglas-Hamilton
 * 2015 – David Macdonald
 * 2016 - Ofir Drori
 * 2017 - King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
 * 2018 - Doutzen Kroes
 * 2019 – Russell Mittermeier
 * 2020 – Frans de Waal and Floortje Dessing
 * 2021 – Frans Lanting
 * 2022 – Frans Timmermans and Razan Al Mubarak