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T+L 2005 Global Vision Awards

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Global Vision Awards Jury

Bonnie Burnham joined the World Monuments Fund in 1985 and has been its president since 1996. Under her guidance, WMF has aided in the conservation of 194 culturally important heritage sites in more than 70 countries. The organization has also launched the Watch List, a biennial compendium of 100 of the world's most endangered sites.

Andrew Drumm has been a senior ecotourism specialist at the Nature Conservancy since 1998 and has more than 17 years of experience managing nonprofit and private ecotourism projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Drumm is a Royal Geographic Society fellow and the founder of Fundación Acción Amazonia.

Andrew Fairley is the director of Turtle Island Resort—a highly successful and pioneering ecotourism propertyin Fiji. For 20 years, he has been at the forefront of sustainable tourism and has been instrumental in developing the resort's renowned community outreach and environmental programs.

Steve Fitzgerald is the director and chief executive of Conservation Corporation Africa, a nonprofit safari company that operates some of Africa's preeminent lodges. Since 1992, he has overseen the company's efforts to promote local economic development and land stewardship, including the immensely effective wildlife regeneration project at Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa.

Niki Leondakis is the COO of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, one of the most socially and environmentally progressive hotel groups in the industry. She has overseen many of the hotel company's innovative initiatives, including the introduction of nontoxic cleaning routines in all 39 of its properties.

Ronald Sanabria, a native of Costa Rica, has worked in environmental management since 1992 and is the director of the Rainforest Alliance's sustainable tourism division. He recently helped launch the Sustainable Tourism Certification Network of the Americas, an international effort to promote good management practices.

Sean Southey is the manager of the Equator Initiative, a platform of the United Nations Development Programme dedicated to reducing poverty in the tropics. The initiative supports grassroots programs to generate local income through responsible land use and protection of biodiversity.

Some jurors abstained from voting in certain categories when they had a conflict of interest.