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June 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Former Greens leader Bob Brown has been saluted with a lifetime conservation prize on his last day as a senator.
The Australian Geographic Society awarded Dr Brown, 67, the award on the same day the Tasmanian parliament appointed winemaker Peter Whish-Wilson as his successor in the Senate.
“His retirement after 16 years with the Australian Greens in the Senate is just one component of his 40 years on the frontline of conservation issues,” the society said in a statement on Wednesday.
Dr Brown’s fight for old-growth forests, and to save Tasmania’s Franklin River from being dammed in the early 1980s, was also recognised.
“His personal commitment to setting up reserves for future generations is outstanding,” the society said.
Another former federal MP, Pat Farmer, was also recognised at the Australian Geographic Society’s annual awards night in Sydney.
Since losing Liberal preselection ahead of the 2010 election, Mr Farmer has returned to marathon running.
In January, the 50-year-old former motor mechanic completed a 21,000km charity run from the North to South Pole, earning him the adventurer of the year prize.
Sydney school friends James Castrission and Justin Jones were awarded the spirit of adventure prize for becoming in January the first people to ski 2,270km journey from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, without help.
Their achieved their feat in 89 days.
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