This award recognizes outstanding work in plant and animal taxonomy, which is crucial for biodiversity conservation and falls under the purview of the Environment Ministry.
E. K. Janaki Ammal National Award on Taxonomy is administered by the
Asked in UPSC CDS 1 2019 · Topic: Biodiversity (Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its Protocols (Cartagena, Nagoya))
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Answer: D. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
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