Rolex Award for LPP Founder 

LPP's work in Rajasthan has been recognized through an international prize from Rolex Awards for Enterprise. 

LPP's founder and project co-ordinator, Dr Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, was named an Associate Laureate for 2002 by an international jury. 

"Ilse Köhler-Rollefson spends half of each year in a remote part of India’s Thar Desert where she has become a leading advocate of a struggling community of camel-herders," says the award. "Köhler-Rollefson is leading a remarkable movement to save their livestock, pastoral livelihood and way of life." 

Click here for a brief description of Ilse's work with the Raika pastoralists in Rajasthan. 

Click here for a description in German from the National Geographic magazine.

The Rolex Awards are granted every two years to pioneering individuals, often working outside the mainstream. The awards recognize innovative work to improve our planet and the human condition