Fatesighrao Gaekwad Conservation Award

Fatesighrao Gaekwad Conservation Award For Environmental Achievement

The International Society of Naturalists (INSONA) with the headquarters in Baroda (INDIA), has instituted Environmental Awareness Fund to honour a schoolchild and an university student every year for outstanding recognition/achievement in the field of environment. The award is names after INSONA's Founder President the late Lt. Col. Fatehsinghrao P. Gaekwad of Baroda. It is to be available to students of all nations. Nominations are invited (names and description of their work) for the 'Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad Conservation Award' for environmental achievement to reach the General Secretary at Baroda not later than 31st December every year. No student should nominate himself/herself, but his/her institution must do so on his behalf.

The award is established to extend INSONA's tribute to endeavours/successes achieved in the service of the global environmental cause. The recipient shall be presented Rupees One Thousand in cash and a memento. The recipient shall ultimately become an integral part of INSONA's cause for human well-being through environmental conservation. There shall be a jury to decide upon the Award. The jury shall recognize efforts in protecting, improving and sustaining our natural resources.

The schoolchildren and university students who devotedly sweat, year in and year out, to preserve and enhance our life-support system deserve gratitude, appreciation and encouragement of the society. Children by nature do not aim at a reward but INSONA believes that by highlighting attention to their accomplishments many more children shall be inspired to serve the environmental cause. The Nominees should have succeeded in bringing to the notice of the people and to the attention of the concerned decisionmakers the vital environmental problems and in effecting local or national action towards their solution, consequently, its impact will further the cause of our environment.