Muscat: India’s Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) has been won the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation 2019 by UNESCO, according to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs (MECA).
Ashoka Trust Research was selected by a jury for its efforts to safeguard the environment at the community level and for its activities related to sustainable development and livelihood generation programs.
The institution will be awarded the Unesco certificate, medal and financial reward at the World Science Forum, which begins in Budapest.
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The prize is awarded every two years. As of 2019, the financial Prize reward is $100,000.
National Parks Board of Singapore was named for the 2017 UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation.
