TCA Awards & Accolades

“A decade on, the Tenkile Conservation Alliance is the most successful conservation organisation in Melanesia ….. and no other organisation I know of in a developing country has anything like this degree of success.”
Professor Tim Flannery

Membership

• TCA is a member of the Papua New Guinea Environmental Alliance
• TCA is a member of the Protected Area Working Group
• TCA is an affiliate member of the International Rangers Federation
• TCA is a member of the Council of Oceania Ranger Associations
• Jim is on the IUCN Forest Task team, World Database of Protected Areas, Species Survival Commission for Marsupials and Monotremes
• Jean is on the IUCN Communication and Education Commission, Species Survival Commission for Marsupials and Monotremes, Society for Conservation Biology

Jim Thomas

• Logohu Medal 2019
• Australian Geographic Conservationists of the year in 2013
• Peter Rawlinson Conservation Hero Award highly commendable 2013
• La Trobe University Distinguished Alumni Award 2012
• Deakin University Adjunct Fellow
• Indianapolis Prize nominee 2010

Jean Thomas

• Telstra Business Women Award for Social and Purpose Enterprise in Victoria 2015
• Australian Geographic Conservationists of the year in 2013
• Future for Nature Award 2010
• The Age Magazine top 100 most influential and interesting people 2010

Mathew Akon

• Whitley Fund for Nature Award 2010

Into the Jungle Movie

• Best Conservation Film Award New York Wild Film Festival 2020

Prince Albert II of Monaco Award for Biodiversity 2018

• https://www.fpa2.org/en/foundation-s-awards-44

Global Energy Award

• TCA has been awarded the Energy Globe Award for 2023 – the world award for sustainability