The ABC Champion Award, which was first presented in 2015, is given to individuals who have donated significant time and/or funds to support ABC’s science-based nonprofit research and educational mission, publications, and programs.
For more than 25 years, Kilham has generously donated his time and ethnobotanical experience and expertise to support ABC’s unique research and educational mission. He has served as a source and peer reviewer for many articles in ABC’s quarterly peer-reviewed journal HerbalGram and other ABC publications and has authored compelling and informative feature articles. Several of these are reader-friendly travelogs in which Kilham provides firsthand accounts of the status of various medicinally and culturally important plants from diverse locations around the world. He also often contributes original photographs for HerbalGram.
Kilham’s HerbalGram articles include “Tamanu Oil: A Tropical Topical Remedy” in issue 63 in 2004, “In the Land of Kesum” in issue 115 in 2017, “Ayahuasca Vine Harvesting in the Peruvian Amazon” in issue 120 in 2018, “A Preliminary Sustainability Report of Ayahuasca Vine in the Peruvian Amazon” in issue 123 in 2019, “The Rising and Falling Fortunes of Vanuatu Kava” in issue 128 in 2020, “Rhodiola Harvest in the ‘Mountains of Heaven’: The Uighur Traders of Xinjiang” in issue 131 in 2021, and “Close Encounters of the Hops Kind” in the forthcoming issue 143 in 2025.
It is my great delight to be awarded the 2025 ABC Champion Award
Kilham said, “it means a great deal to me. For many years, I’ve had the good fortune and privilege to contribute to some of the publications and programs of ABC. This is not only an organisation, but it is also a mission — a mission that brings together many people from around the world with diverse abilities, experience, and visions, all moving to help establish botanicals in their rightful place. I’m delighted to be part of the mix, and I can’t adequately express how much this honor means to me.”