Acción Andina is a regional initiative working across the Andes mountains. Over the last eight years, Acción Andina has planted over 12 and a half million native trees in partnership…
BTF is the world’s first environmental trust fund. Over the last twenty-five years, the BTF has been instrumental in sustaining Bhutan’s protected area network and continues to fund key conservation…
Karma Wangdi is a forester working under the Department of Forests and Park Services, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, at the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment. With…
Late Sangay Wangchuk (PhD), who served more than 40 years with the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFS), has been conferred the Jigme Singye Wangchuck Outstanding Environmental Stewardship Award…
Mr. Tshering Penjore, Principal Research Officer at Renewable Natural Research Center at Mongar has helped fabricate and construct low cost and effective electric fencing thereby helping contain and prevent crop…
Dr. D.B. Gurung, Dean of the College of Natural Resources under the Royal University of Bhutan is an avid naturalist and author of the Orchids of Bhutan. His pioneering work…
Mr. Sherub, popularly known as Bird Sherub is synonymous with birds. He is working as the Chief of Research and Education at the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment.…
The 3rd Jigme Singye Wangchuck Outstanding Environmental Stewardship Award (JSW-OESA) was conferred by HRH Ashi Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the 14th International Society of Ethnobiology…
Mr. Raling Ngawang Drukdra from the Department of Forests and Park Services is considered one of Bhutan’s foremost ethnobotanists, a specialist on the cultural values and uses of plants. He pioneered the establishment…
Ms. Rebecca Pradhan, works with the Royal Society for Protection of Nature. She has been instrumental in the conservation of Bhutan’s critically endangered white bellied heron, a cause to which she has…
Dasho Paljor J. Dorji is the founder of the Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN), the first homegrown environmental NGO in Bhutan. The RSPN, which was founded in 1987, now supplements the…
Mr. Sonam Phuntsho started planting trees as a primary school student in the early 1970s. Since then, he has planted more than 10,000 saplings of bluepine, maple and oak throughout Bhutan.…
