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15/05/22 16:27 PM IST

UN land conservation award

In News 
  • Rajasthan-based climate activist Shyam Sundar Jyani's environment conservation concept, Familial Forestry has won this year's prestigious United Nations' Land for Life Award. 
Recognition 
  • The UNCCD praised Familial Forestry of Rajasthan as "a unique concept of Shyam Sunder Jyanithat relates a tree with a family, making it a green family member.
  • Jyani was chosen by the UNCCD for the Land For Life Award 2021 among 12 shortlisted candidates across the globe.
  • Two candidates had been shortlisted from India - the other being Jaggi Vasudev, popularly known as Sadguru, who has been campaigning for environmental cause for several years.
  • Shyam Sundar Jyani, an associate professor of Sociology in Rajasthan's Bikaner, has been campaigning for Familial Forestry for over 15 years.
About Award 
  • Launched at the UNCCD COP (Conference of Parties) 10 in 2011, the Land for Life Award is considered as the world's highest reward regarding land conservation and restoration.
  • This year's theme was "Healthy Land, Healthy Lives".
Familial Forestry
  • Familial Forestry means transferring the care of tree and environment in the family so that a tree becomes a part of the family's consciousness.
  • More than a million families from more than 15,000 villages of desert-prone northwest Rajasthan in over 2.5 million saplings have been planted in the past 15 years, with active participation of students and desert dwellers.
About UNCCCD
  • It was established in 1994, the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management.
  • The Delhi Declaration of 2019, signed by 14th CoP of the UNCCD, called for better access and stewardship over land, and emphasised gender-sensitive transformative projects.
Source-Times of India 

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