Russell Mittermeier - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Mittermeier has received many awards, including:

• San Diego Zoo Gold Medal, 1988
• The Order of the Golden Ark from His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (1995)
• The Grand Order of the Southern Cross from the President of Brazil (1997)
• The Grand Sash and Order of the Yellow Star from the President of Suriname (1998)
• In 1998, he was also selected as one of Time magazine's "EcoHeroes for the Planet".
• The second annual Aldo Leopold Award from the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM), 2004.
• The twelfth annual Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Award from the Harvard Museum of Natural History.