The “Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development” for 2019 would be conferred on renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. It was announced by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust (IGMT) on November 19, 2019.
His name was selected for the prize by an international jury chaired by former president Pranab Mukherjee, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust .
The 2019 prize, it added, is awarded to Attenborough for a lifetime of doing more to reveal the wonders of the natural world to us than perhaps any other individual.
Presenting the prize for 2018 to the head of Centre for Science and Environment Sunita Narain, Sonia Gandhi expressed concern over air pollution and recalled the introduction of CNG-powered public transport by earlier Congress government.
About David Attenborough
Attenborough was director of television programming of the BBC from 1968 to 1972. He wrote (and narrated) a succession of award-winning television programs on anthropology and natural history, most notably the Life series: Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), Life in the Freezer (1993), The Private Life of Plants (1995), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002–03), Life in the Undergrowth (2005), and Life in Cold Blood (2008). His other TV credits included The Blue Planet (2001), an exploration of the world’s oceans, and State of the Planet (2000) and Are We Changing Planet Earth? (20 06
