CMS’s Heidi Frisch-Nwakanma Wins Mandy McMath Award
Professor Hal Whitehead, last year's ESC award winner, handing over the award to Ms. Heidrun Frisch-Nwakanma At the recent annual conference of the European Cetacean Society in Middelfart, Denmark, CMS staff member Heidrun Frisch-Nwakanma was honoured by being presented with the Mandy McMath ECS Conservation Award. The ECS Award, named after passionate Welsh conservationist Mandy McMath who passed away in 2012, is given for an outstanding contribution to the field of marine mammal conservation and/or welfare, with particular emphasis on contributions to environmental education and/or to conservation in practice.