The third competition was launched on July 2010 with the closing date for applications set at 15 April 2011. Sixty-one entries were received from twenty-five different countries. The jury met on 20th September and chose Dr Lucy King's thesis on "the interaction between the African elephant and the African honey bee and its potential application as an elephant deterrent" as the winner. The prize was awarded at the CMS COP in Norway in November.
Awards
On the three occasions when it was held, the UNEP/CMS Thesis Award on Migratory Species Conservation recognized laureates with outstanding scientific research on migratory species. It was established to promote scientific research and conservation of migratory species, as defined by the Convention, and was sponsored by National Geographic Deutschland and Lufthansa.
The Thesis Award was launched by the Secretariat of the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species, on the occasion of its 25th Anniversary in 2004. It was bestowed for the first time at the 8th meeting of the CMS Conference of the Parties (COP8) in November 2005, in association with Museum Alexander Koenig and the Global Register of Migratory Species. Below you will find the award winners and laureates as well as the full reports from 2005 to 2011.