Malibu Photographer to Receive Sierra Club's Award for Conservation Photography

MALIBU, CA — A Malibu photographer has been selected to receive a top conservation photography award by the Sierra Club, it was announced Tuesday.

Nick Brandt will be receiving the Ansel Adams Award, which honors excellence in conservation photography. Brandt has published a trilogy of books that document the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa and has founded a non-profit organization called the Big Life Foundation, which is dedicated to the conservation of Africa's wildlife and ecosystems.

The group's top award will be given to Tom Goldtooth, a Native American environmental leader known nationally for his tireless efforts to defend Indigenous rights to a healthy environment and his dedicated work against fossil fuel projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, the Sierra Club said. Goldtooth is set to receive the Sierra Club's 2016 John Muir Award.

The the majority of the awards will be given out at the conservation group's awards ceremony Saturday in Oakland.

The Sierra Club is America's largest grassroots environmental organization, with more than 2.4 million members and supporters.

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