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Siachen Glacier region
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Manas National Park
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Sangha Trinational
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Pench National Park
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Detailed explanation-1: -Also, the Transboundary Manas Conservation Area or TraMCA (India-Bhutan border) has received the Conservation Excellence Award for 2020.
Detailed explanation-2: -Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in 2020 was awarded the first TX2 Award for having doubled its tiger population from 25 tigers to 65 in 2018.
Detailed explanation-3: -Created in 2011, the Transboundary Manas Conservation Area (TraMCA) straddles the Indo-Bhutan border. On one side sits Bhutan’s oldest protected area, Royal Manas National Park and on the other side is India’s Manas Tiger Reserve, an UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site.
Detailed explanation-4: -Two categories of awards - the TX2 Award and Tiger Conservation Excellence Award - will celebrate these sites. These awards are open to submissions from any site in a tiger range country that has achieved remarkable measurable progress since 2010. Award winners will be announced in January 2023.
Detailed explanation-5: -There is already one trans-boundary Protected Area in India and Bhutan, which includes the Manas landscape of Assam, and the new tripartite park will be an extension of this, Das said. “This initiative was taken by India keeping in view the migratory wildlife species such as elephant, ” Das said.