Mahinder Giri, range officer of Rajaji Tiger Reserve, has won the prestigious International Ranger Award for his contribution towards conservation.
- Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar has congratulated Mahinder Giri for being the only ranger from Asia to win this award.
- The award has been announced for 10 professionals across the world by the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN and World Commission on Protected Areas WCPA.
- Developed through a collaboration between the IUCN WCPA, the International Ranger Federation, Global Wildlife Conservation, and Conservation Allies, these awards, created in 2020, aim to highlight and felicitate the extraordinary work that rangers do in protected and conserved areas worldwide.
