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- Award· in.1999 the 1"""
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Karnataka Rajyotsava Awar<l;'an"d recentlj Nove1noer 8';2020, the Government

of India awardeed Gowda the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest award given
to citizens of India, fo r her untiring efforts to maintain regional biodivers ity
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International Environmentalist
 SWIETENIA PUSPA LESTARI

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She is a native of Pramuka Island in the Java Sea. A keen dive

childhood, s e etudie<Lenvironmentalengine te
rl'e dua~ in-2011. She is executive director and' co-founder ~
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of J a-based Divers Clean Action (DCA) and leads a1team of:volunteer
divers who clear rubbish, especially plastic waste from the reefs and
recycle what they find. Be · · with three people in 2015, the DCA has
grown to 12 team members and nearly 1,500 volunteers across Indonesia;
In 2011 Lestari founded the In ·--- ·iY'outh · e Debris S............ ·t
(IYMDS). The same year, she represen ed Indoneaia ancl BP.Olti at theT2011a
United Nations Climate Change Conference·in Bonn;.
helped initiate an anti-plastic .u&A.&Uf, straw · in Iii"cl
convinced 100 restaurants to reduce the use o s e-Ule

In 2019, Lestari was listed among the BBC's oo Wome a liit of100
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inspiring and influential women. Later that year, she was invited to attend
=~lr~...;,_ar and ~ • s 'Obama Foundation Leaders Forum', which
was held in Kuala Lumpur, M ia, in December. She was subsequently
included in ::..'J..rJ-c.:•<K "30 Under ao -Asia- Social Entrepreneurs 202011•
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