Dimapur, Feb. 16 -- The Nagaland Forest Management Project (NFMP) received the prestigious SKOCH Award 2024 for sustainable forest and environmental conservation and improving livelihoods in targeted villages through need-based and village-specific interventions led by joint forest management committees.

Ango Konyak, deputy conservator of forests (HQ) and deputy project director of NFMP, along with Wennyei Konyak, resident commissioner of Nagaland House, New Delhi, received the award at a ceremony held as part of the 100th SKOCH Summit in New Delhi on February 15.

The NFMP is a project implemented by Nagaland's Department of Environment, Forests and Climate Change with assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). ...