The Bowland Award

The Bowland Award, a hen harrier sculpture in bronze, is awarded annually for the best project, best practice or outstanding contribution to the wellbeing of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The Award is one of our ways of acknowledging the tireless work of people who contribute to making the UK’s AONBs wonderful places to visit, live and work in. Each year we look for a person or a group of people for whom sharing, learning, inspiring is a way of life and who have made an outstanding contribution to the wellbeing of AONBs. Awards are made at a special ceremony at the annual Landscapes for Life Conference.

Since its inception in 1999 the Bowland Award has been awarded to 18 people or projects.

Previous recipients of the Bowland Award are:

• 2019 – 20th Anniversary of the Chichester Harbour Education Service
• 2018 – Wye Valley River Festival
• 2017 – North Pennines AONB Nectarworks project
• 2016 – Dorset AONB Stepping into Nature Project
• 2015 – Cranborne Chase AONB South Wiltshire Farmland Birds Project
• 2014 – North Pennines AONB Altogether Archaeology Project
• 2013 – Chilterns Chalk Stream Project
• 2012 – Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project
• 2011 – The Gower Society
• 2010 – Butterfly Conservation
• 2009 – Mike Taylor OBE
• 2008 – Simon Hooton
• 2007 – Professor Adrian Phillips CBE
• 2006 – The Countryside Agency
• 2005 – The Rt Hon Alun Michael  MP
• 2004 – Richard Butler
• 2002 – Ray Woolmore
• 2000 – The Rt. Hon The Lord Renton of Mount Harry
• 1999 – Professor Gerald Smart