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- Indian botanist Kamaljit S. Bawa received the prestigious Linnean Medal in Botany from the Linnean Society of London.
- He was the President of Bengaluru-based non-profit Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).
- Bawa is the first Indian to win the award ever since it was first constituted in 1888.
- He is being recognized for his pioneering research on the evolution of tropical plants, tropical deforestation, non-timber forest products and for decades of work on the biodiversity of forests in Central America, the Western Ghats, and the Eastern Himalaya.
- His best efforts were seen in establishing the open-access interdisciplinary journal Conservation and in 2003, the online citizen-science repository ‘India Biodiversity Portal’ and ATREE (ranked second in Asia and 18th globally among the world’s environment think tanks)
- It is a good recognition of our work on conservation and sustainability.
- It is awarded to a biologist every year by the Linnean Society of London.
- The world’s oldest active biological society was founded in 1788 and named after famous Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus who gave us one of the systems of naming plants and animals.
- Incidentally, the first scientist to receive the Linnean Medal was Sir Joseph D. Hooker who compiled the monumental seven-volume Flora of British India, the first ever comprehensive account of India’s plants.
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