Juan Mayr Maldonado (born 27 May 1952)[1] is a Colombian photographer and environmentalist who served as Ambassador of Colombia to Germany from 2011 to 2016.

[2] Mayr was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993,[3] for leading a struggle for protecting biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

He lived two years with the Kogi, and founded the Fundación Pro-Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in 1986.

In 1994 the Colombian government returned 19,500 hectares of traditional lands to the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada.

[3] On 30 August 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón appointed Mayr Ambassador of Colombia to Germany during a ceremony at the Palace of Nariño;[4] Mayr presented his credentials to President Christian Wulff on 19 October 2011 at the Bellevue Palace.