The first-ever Wangari Maathai Award has been given today to a forestry activist from Nepal to recognize his efforts to promote community forest management. The ceremony took place at the Committee on Forestry (COFO), at FAO headquarters in Rome.
The Wangari Maathai Awards were established by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), of which FAO is an active member, to recognize the efforts to improve and sustain forests and to honour the memory of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
The top prize was awarded to dedicated activist Narayan Kaji Shrestha from Nepal for his outstanding contribution in promoting community forest issues in Nepal for several decades at international forestry events. (...)
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http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/158734/icode/
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