Karen Peace Park Wins UN?s 2020 Equator Prize karennews.org

The United Nations Development Program awarded the prestigious Equator Prize to the Salween Peace Park for their landscape conservation works. The Salween Peace Park is a community-led initiative, empowers local Indigenous communities by revitalizing their traditional practices, asserting their rights, and managing their natural resources. The Equator Prize was established by the United Nations Development Program in 2002 and is awarded biennially for outstanding community efforts to reduce poverty through conservation and by sustainable use of biodiversity.