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PILIBHIT: The selection panel of United Nations Environment program has selected the wildlife crime control bureau of India and its enforcement officer RS Sharath for Asia Environmental Enforcement Awards under the organization and individual categories respectively for their outstanding contributions in combating the trans-boundary environmental crimes.The awards will be presented to them at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok today (Wednesday) between 5 to 8 PM (Bangkok time).Sending the copies of the concerned documents to TOI from Bangkok, the award winner, Sharath told that the award of WCCB would be received by additional director, Tilottama Verma.The UN environment program has selected a total of ten award winners from Asia, of which 3 institutions and individuals hail from Thailand, one each from Vietnam, Korea , Nepal, Malaysia and China while 2 winners from India..