Victor Stolan (born 1893) provided "the germ of the idea" that led Julian Huxley and Max Nicholson with him to start the World Wildlife Fund. They together with others they recruited founded the organization on 11 September 1961 in Switzerland.
Josef Vavroušek (September 15, 1944 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – March 18, 1995 in Slovakia) was a Czech environmentalist, scientist and politician, and the founder of the Environment for Europe process.