The ninth Indianapolis Prize, considered the equivalent of a Nobel award in the field of animal conservation and worth US$250,000, has gone to Mar del Plata biologist and CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) researcher Juan Pablo García Borboroglu for his work in researching and protecting penguins. The prize, which was announced in London, will be given to him in Indianapolis (Indiana) on September 30. Founder and president of Global Penguin Society since 2009, his work in the course of three decades has taken him to four continents, preserving millions of acres of habitat for the birds.
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