Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt has Given the German Environmental Award to Hans G. Huber and Ernst-Detlef Schulze Today

DRESDEN, Germany, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --

-- Federal President Köhler: "Nature conservation is no luxury, but a future task"

The 500,000 Euro European environmental prize was awarded for the 14th time today. President Köhler presented the German Environmental Award of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt German DBU in Dresden to the Bavarian entrepreneur Hans G. Huber (64) and the Jena ecosystem researcher Professor Ernst-Detlef Schulze (65). Huber gets the price because he developed robust and high-quality technologies for the drinking-water purification and sewage treatment in emerging and developing countries and sold these technologies successfully. As director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Ernst-Detlef Schulze explores the reasons for the global warming. In his speech emphasized President Köhler the importance of the nature conservation: "For 100 years, nature conservation has been a national task. That must remain, not as a burden, about which one is concerned more or less according to the current budget situation. Nature conservation is no luxury, nature conservation is a future task."

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Contact DBU: Franz-Georg Elpers - Spokesman - An der Bornau 2, 49090 Osnabrück, Telefon: +49-0541|9633521, Telefax: +49-0541|9633198, presse@dbu.de, www.dbu.de