Answer- B
Mr. Jagdish Bakan has been awarded the biennial Michel Batisse Award for Biosphere Reserve Management for introducing ‘green’ jobs and microcredit to stimulate community-led efforts to conserve biodiversity in the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve in India.
He received the US$12,000 award on June 14 from the International Coordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program, which is meeting at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from June 12–15.