British Broadcaster David Attenborough Awarded Indira Gandhi Peace Prize

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday conferred the Indira GandhiGandhiGandhi Peace Prize on British broadcaster David Attenborough at a virtual event.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi was also present during the online award function.

She described David Attenborough as one of Nature's "most staunch conscience keepers" for over half a century. David is also the brother of actor Richard Attenborough.

"David is already well known to us all through his prodigious creativity in educating the humankind with brilliant films and books about the natural world. And he has, of late, been the most sensible voice warning us that we, more than anything else, are responsible for the accelerating threat to the environment on our planet," Sonia Gandhi said in her speech.