Every two years, Ecological Solutions and Evidence awards the Chico Mendes Prize to the best Practice Insights article published by an early career author. Today, we present the shortlisted articles for this year’s award based on the previous two volumes of the journal.

This is the second time we’ll be awarding the prize in honour of Chico Mendes, an environmental activist whose fight and defence for the Amazon rainforest, local labourers and indigenous peoples changed the course of conservation across Brazil. The prize was made in his name to honour his work and the work of on-the-ground practitioners around the world

The shortlisted candidates for the Chico Mendes Price were hand-picked by the journal’s Senior Editors who will also be undergoing a more rigorous process of selecting a winner from this list.

This year’s shortlisted candidates are:

A marsh multi-model approach to inform future marsh management under accelerating sea level rise – Molly Mitchell

Co-designing conservation interventions through participatory action research in the Indian Trans-Himalaya – Munib Khanyari

A habitat connectivity reality check for fish physical habitat model results and decision making for river restoration – Henry Hansen

Upland prairie adaptive management staged-scale restoration practices for native plant and endangered butterfly reintroduction – Claudia Muzychko

We will be announcing the overall winner along the other early career prize winners across the BES journals in April 2024. Find out about our previous winners here.