New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- Tamil Nadu IAS officer Supriya Sahu was presented with the 2025 UN Champions of the Earth award for inspiration and action, the United Nations' highest environmental honour. She was recognised as a recipient of the 2025 Champions of the Earth award by the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi on Wednesday.

Sahu was recognised for her pioneering and long-standing leadership on critical environmental challenges in India, including plastics and wildlife conservation, a press release said on Wednesday.

Supriya Sahu, the winner of Champions of the Earth 2025 for Inspiration and Action, said, "My inspiration comes from people who stood by me from the local village, working with me to clean up the mangroves as their own. My...