Who has won the UN’s highest environmental award from India?
A) Purnima Devi Barman
B) Sunita Narain
C) Jadav Payeng
D) Vandana Shiva
Answer : A
Description :
Assam’s leading conservationist Purnima Devi Barman has been awarded the United Nation's highest environmental honor, ‘Champions of the Earth’, for 2022. Purnima Devi Barman has strived for nearly two decades to ensure the survival of the Greatest Adjutant Stork by creating an all-woman grassroots conservationist group called the ‘Hargila (the Assamese name for the bird) Army’ to save the bird from extinction.
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