Ann Dumaliang is an Ashoka Fellow, a Global Shaper, National Geographic Explorer, Vanity Fair Changing Your Mind Awardee and Esquire Philippines' Man at His Best Warrior of the Year who co-founded the Masungi Georeserve - an award-winning project using the triple approach of conservation & research, education and sustainable development through geotourism as a bottoms-up approach to conserving a 60 million year old pinnacle karst formation and aiding rural growth.

Her project now involves the ambitious aim to manage & restore a 2,700 hectare area at no cost to government. These areas constitute portions of a critically deteriorated watershed important to 20 million Filipinos - making it important as a disaster-risk resilience approach and as a nature-based solution to the climate crisis in some of the most at risk countries and communities in the world.

Awards and accolades for the project include:
(1) Special commendations at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN-CBD) 14th Conference of Parties in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt in October 2018 for innovations in resourcing and financing for conservation
(2) Global finalist for Destination Stewardship Award at the World Travel and Tourism Council’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards in Seville, Spain in 2019 out of about 150 nominations
(3) Being considered as one of the top three most sustainable and innovative tourism projects in the world by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation out of 200 nominations in 2019
(4) Most recently, Masungi Georeserve has also the Global Water Changemaker Award for speaking truth to power & overcoming inertia for watershed rehabilitation
(5) The prestigious United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Action Award for creating youth-led movements for conservation
(6) The International Ranger Federation Award for demonstrated bravery at the frontlines for protecting tropical rainforests against illegal and syndicated activities