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 Prize for the field of biosphere management and conservation.

The six scientists who received the UNESCO Young Scientists 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 from Nicaragua.

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The research projects that won the 2013 Young Scientists Award mainly focused on protecting biodiversity in nature reserves and promoting sustainable development in biosphere reserves through the promotion of key ecological services.

Since 1989, UNESCO's MAB Programme has awarded the Young Scientist Prize with a $5,000 grant, aiming to encourage young scientists to research topics such as ecosystems, natural resources, and biodiversity.

Also at the meeting, UNESCO awarded two Michel Batisse prizes worth $6,000 each in the field of biosphere management and conservation to Marisa Coetzee and Harry Biggs for their research related to biosphere conservation from Kruger National Park to the Canyons Biosphere Reserve in South Africa.

According to (VNA) - VT