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Jagdish Bakan wins UNESCO’s Michel Batisse Award for creating ‘green’ jobs and microcredit in Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve
Mr Jagdish Bakan has been awarded the biennial Michel Batisse Award for Biosphere Reserve Management for introducing green jobs and microcredit to stimulate communityled efforts to conserve biodiversity in the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve in India He received the US$12000 award on 14 June from the International Coordinating Council of UNESCOs Man and the Biosphere MAB Programme which is meeting at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 1215 June