United Nations Grand Awardee for Excellence (1997) for the Bantay Bata 163 which she initiated and advocated International Public Relations Award of Excellence for the Environment (1997) Outstanding Manilans Award for the Environment (2009) UNESCO Kalinga Award, where she was the first Southeast Asian to receive the prestigious award Doctorate Degree in Humanities, Honoris Causa from the Ateneo de Naga University 2017 Seacology Prize [1]