{"id":4842,"date":"2015-09-24T06:57:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T06:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2015-09-24T06:57:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T06:57:19","slug":"wangari-maathai-forest-champion-award-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wangari-maathai-forest-champion-award-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Wangari Maathai Forest Champion Award 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ques: When Wangari Maathai Forest Champion Awards as given for the first time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a. 2010<br \/>\nb. 2011<br \/>\nc. 2012<br \/>\nd. 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 10, 2015 Ugandan forestry activist Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi was awarded the 2015 Wangari Maathai \u2018Forest Champions&#8217; Award.<\/li>\n<li>She was awarded in recognition of her efforts to promote the conservation and sustainable use of her country&#8217;s forest resources.<\/li>\n<li>Since 1994, Kenyangi has been working with Uganda&#8217;s National Forest Authority to protect and promote the sustainable use of tropical forests in the country&#8217;s Mbarara and Ntungamo districts.<\/li>\n<li>With the help of the women of the community-based non-governmental organization Support for Women and Agriculture (SWAGEN), she has planted over one million trees in the Rwoho Natural Forest buffer zone.<\/li>\n<li>It is notable that the first prize was awarded in 2012 to the Narayan Kaji Shrestha of Nepal.<\/li>\n<li>The award carries a cash prize of $20,000.<\/li>\n<li>The award was established in 2012 by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), which is chaired by Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation (FAO).<\/li>\n<li>The Collaborative Partnership on Forests is comprised of 14 international organizations, including FAO, working together to promote forest management, conservation and sustainable development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/328330\/icode\/\">http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/328330\/icode\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpfweb.org\/77034\/en\/\">http:\/\/www.cpfweb.org\/77034\/en\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iufro.org\/news\/article\/2015\/09\/16\/wangari-maathai-forest-champions-award-2015-1\/\">http:\/\/www.iufro.org\/news\/article\/2015\/09\/16\/wangari-maathai-forest-champions-award-2015-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ques: When Wangari Maathai Forest Champion Awards as given for the first time? a. 2010 b. 2011 c. 2012 d. 2013 Ans: c Related facts: September 10, 2015 Ugandan forestry activist Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi was awarded the 2015 Wangari Maathai \u2018Forest Champions&#8217; Award. She was awarded in recognition of her efforts to promote the conservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}