Ulrich Eichelmann
Laureate
- Organisation
- Riverwatch
- Function
- CEO
- Country
- Austria
- Field of work
- Sustainable Energy, Biodiversity / Nature Conservation
- Awards
- Binding-Prize for the Protection of Nature and Environment , 2014
- Wolfgang Staat Naturschutzpreis 2015
- Project
- Save the Blue Heart of Europe
I am a nature conservationist focussing on river protection. I am in the NGO business for more than 25 years now. My speciality is campaigning against hydropower plants. I worked 17 years for WWF, after that I founded the NGO Riverwatch - a society for the protection of rivers. I fought against the Ilisu dam in Turkey and produced a documentary about the misuse of the climate protection issue: Climate Crimes - http://riverwatch.eu/en/climate-crimes/trailer-full-version. Right now I am leading the campaign for the protection of the rivers on the Balkans, where more than 2.700 new dams are threatening Europe´s best rivers. http://www.balkanrivers.net