The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has received the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award 2020.
It was awarded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Earlier, the Bureau had received the award in 2018 under the same category.
It is a statutory body constituted under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
In a first for India, a female forest officer from Odisha, Sasmita Lenka has been felicitated with United Nation's Asia Environmental Enforcement Award.