Wildlife NGO co-founder bags award

Mysuru: Charudutt Mishra, co-founder of Mysuru–based Nature Conservation Foundation, an NGO established to promote science-based wildlife conservation in India, has won the Whitley Gold Award from UK wildlife conservation charity the Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN).
Mishra, also the executive director of the Snow Leopard Trust, established India’s first community-based initiatives to save the endangered snow leopard. According to him, an estimated 6,500 wild snow leopards remain, prowling the high mountains and plateaus of twelve countries including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Russia, and Mongolia.
The Whitley awards, popularly known as Green Oscar, are held annually by WFN to recognise and celebrate effective grassroots conservation leaders across the Global South, said a release. tnn