Sonali Ghosh, the Director of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, has become the first Indian to receive an international award for innovation in national parks and protected area sustainability. She received the Kenton R Miller Award, constituted by the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), along with Ecuador’s Roque Simón Sevilla Larrea at a function in Abu Dhabi on October 10, 2025. The WCPA is one of six technical commissions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a 1948-established global network dedicated to the conservation of nature and the sustainable use of natural resources.

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