WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE
Ecologist Bibhuti Lahkar wins IUCN’s Heritage
Heroes Award 2016:
Assam-based ecologist and conservation activist
Bibhuti Lahkar has won prestigious ‘Heritage Heroes
Award’ of the International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN). With this, he became the first Asian to
win this prestigious environmental award. He was
presented this award at the IUCN’s ongoing World
Conservation Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Background Lahkar was among five conservationists
across the globe to be nominated for 2016 Heritage
Heroes Award. Others were Bantu Lukambo and
Josue Kambasu Mukura (Congo), Yulia Naberezhnaya
and Andrey Rudomahka (Russia)
Kiran M Shaw appointed Knight of Legion of
Honor by France:
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson and Managing Director of
Biocon Limited was appointed Knight of the National Order of the
French Legion of Honour (Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la
Légion d’Honneur). Shaw was bestowed with this prestigious
award for her contribution to biosciences and research. She will
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