UNESCO honors young scientists
On May 30, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) honored six scientists with the Young Scientist Award and two researchers with the Michel Batisse Award for the field of biosphere management and conservation.
The six scientists receiving the UNESCO Young Scientist Award 2013 are Julio Blas Garcia from Spain, Angela Camargo (Mexico), Bilal Habib (India), Hilaire Kouakou (Cote d'Ivoire), Atieh Kazemi Mojarad (Iran) and Claudia Munera of Nicaragua.
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The research projects that won the 2013 Young Scientist Award mainly focused on the issue of protecting biodiversity in nature reserves and sustainable development in biosphere reserves through promoting key ecosystem services.
Since 1989, the UNESCO MAB Programme has awarded the Young Scientist Award with a prize of US$5,000, with the aim of encouraging young scientists to research on topics such as ecosystems, natural resources and biodiversity.
Also at the meeting, UNESCO awarded two Michel Batisse prizes worth 6,000 USD in the field of biosphere management and conservation to two authors, Marisa Coetzee and Harry Biggs, for their research related to biosphere conservation from Kruger Park to the Canyons Biosphere Reserve in South Africa./.
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