Organisers of award in honour of late primatologist hope it will inspire and encourage people to take action
Earth might be under pressure, but the Queen guitarist Sir Brian May is hopeful a new award from the science, music and arts festival he co-founded will encourage people to take action.
The Starmus Jane Goodall Earth medal is in honour of the British primatologist who died this year and will recognise those who champion life on Earth.
The first recipients are expected to be announced at the Starmus VIII festival in Tenerife and La Palma, which will run from 17–22 October next year.
May told the Guardian that Goodall, who was an advisory board member of Starmus, had supported its creation. “The idea of having this medal, and Starmus being entrusted to organising it, is Jane’s. Jane said she would like this to happen. And I think it’s because of the very special relationship she had with us,” he said.
