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Meet three of the five Rolex Awards For Enterprise laureates, whose inspiring projects will improve life on Planet Earth as part of the watchmaker's Perpetual Planet campaign
Rolex, a firm supporter of explorers and individuals to discover more about planet Earth and to find ways to preserve the natural world, has launched the Perpetual Planet campaign this year to further its commitment to maintaining the well-being of the earth.
One of the three key pillars of the campaign is the Rolex Awards for Enterprise, an awards to foster entrepreneurship, advance human knowledge and protect our cultural heritage and the environment. (The other two are marine conservationist Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue initiative and Rolex's deepened partnership with the National Geographic Society.)
After few rounds of presentations and selection by an independent jury, five laureates were unveiled in a ceremony in Washington in June. Here, three of the laureates—Brazilian fisheries biologist João Campos-Silva, Ugandan IT specialist Brian Gitta, Canadian entrepreneur and molecular biologist Miranda Wang—reveal more about their projects and their ambitions to solving earth's key challenges.