Barman has won the award in the ‘Entrepreneurial Vision’ category for her work with local communities to conserve the greater adjutant stork, an endangered wetland bird, in Assam.
A conservationist, a sustainable waste management enterprise, an economist, a women’s rights activist, and a wildlife biologist were selected from nearly 2,200 nominations — a new submission record.
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Assam's leading conservationist Purnima Devi Barman has been awarded the United Nation's highest environmental honour, 'Champions of the Earth', for 2022.