Brian Hodgson Award

The Brian Hodgson Award for Nature Conservation 2026 was awarded to Hemanta Raj Mishra, Nepal's leading wildlife biologist, at a ceremony held on Sunday, 22 February 2026, at the Aloft Hotel. The award was instituted byPande of the Nepal Britain Society, and Hem Sagar Baral of Himalayan Nature. The award honours Brian Houghton Hodgson, the renowned British naturalist, ethnologist, and early Himalayan scholar, who discovered 39 new mammal species and 124 bird species from the Himalayan region and whose zoological collections were presented to the British Museum in 1843 and 1858.