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The '''British Environment and Media Awards''', or BEMAs, were created by [[Media Natura]], and are awarded by the [[World Wide Fund for Nature]]. The awards are open to any professional article, programme, website or campaign, written, produced or undertaken in the UK. Past hosts have included [[Angus Deayton]],<ref name=BEMAs2007>{{cite web|url=http://www.bemas.org.uk/|title=2007 BEMAs|accessdate=2008-01-04}}</ref> and [[Michael Fish]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wwf.org.uk/bemas/2004/index.asp|title=2004 BEMAs|accessdate=2008-01-04}}</ref>

In 2007, the year the awards became [[carbon neutral]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wwf.org.uk/bemas/2006/index.asp|title=The first Carbon Neutral BEMAs in 2007|publisher=WWF|date=}}</ref> winners included:<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov/08/pressandpublishing?gusrc=rss&feed=media|title=Guardian wins media award|publisher=Guardian Unlimited|date=2007-08-11 | location=London | first=John | last=Plunkett | accessdate=2010-05-25}}</ref>
* [[The Guardian]] newspaper
* The [[Financial Times]]'s [[Fiona Harvey]] for exposing corruption in the [[carbon offset]] market
* The [[BBC]] [[BBC News at Ten|News at Ten]] for its coverage of [[climate change]]
* The student organisation [[People & Planet]] for its university environmental performance table, the ''[[The People & Planet Green League|Green League]]''

Some of the award's sponsors, which include the [[RSPB]], have attracted some condemnation, such as [[Surfers Against Sewage]] protest at the 2007 awards where they handed [[Northumbrian Water]] a gold toilet-brush for "showing a disregard to the health of the marine environment".<ref name=Guardian/> Northumbrian Water however insist they are "the leading environmental company in the North East", having "invested some £2 billion on environmental and service improvements since 1990".<ref name=BEMAs2007/>

==See also==
* [[Environmental journalism]]
* [[List of environmental awards]]

==References==
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