National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film

The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film
National award for contributions to short film
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹50,000
First award	1989
Final award	2021
Most recent winner	Munnam Valavu
Highlights
Total awarded	32
First winner	The Deer on the Lake

The award was instituted in 1989, at 37th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Scientific Film, National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film, National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film, National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film, National Film Award for Best Investigative Film and National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues, National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values.^[1]

Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

Awards legends
†	Awarded as Best Scientific Film / Best Environment / Conservation / Preservation Film
‡	Awarded as Best Agricultural Film / Best Environment / Conservation / Preservation Film

List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Refs.
1989 (37th)	The Deer on the Lake	English	Aribam Syam Sharma	Aribam Syam Sharma	[2]
1990 (38th)	Pratikriya	Desiya	Rahat Yusufi	Rahat Yusufi	[3]
1991 (39th)	Mudialy Ekti Bikalpa Pantha (The Mudialy Alternative)	English	Dilip Kumar Roy	Samiran Dutta	[4]
1992 (40th)	Ladhakh: The Forbidden Wilderness	English	Bedi Films	Naresh Bedi	[5]
1993 (41st)	Orchids of Manipur	Manipuri	Sh. Tomchou Singh	Aribam Syam Sharma	[6]
1994 (42nd)	Visuddha Vanangal	Malayalam	Kerala State Film Development Corporation	K. R. Mohanan	[7]
1995 (43rd)	Amrit Beeja	• English  • Kannada	Meera Dewan	Meera Dewan	[8]
1996 (44th)	Rabia Chalikkunnu	Malayalam	Abraham Benhur	Ali Akbar	[9]
1997 (45th)	Nature's Sentinels: Bishnoi	Hindi	Y. N. Engineer for Films Division	• Late P. C. Sharma  • Shankar Patnaik	[10]
1998 (46th)	Willing To Sacrifice	English	Dayakar Rao	B. V. Rao	[11]
1999 (47th)	And The Bamboo Blooms	English	Films Division	Joshy Joseph	[12]
2000 (48th)	The Nest	Bengali	Sparsh Productions	Supriyo Sen	[13]
2001 (49th)	The Holy Ganga	Hindi	Y. N. Engineer for Films Division	Viplove Bhatia	[14]
2002 (50th)	Urumattram	Tamil	• B.Sivakumar  • G. Meenakshi Sundaram	B.Sivakumar	[15]
2003 (51st)	The 18 Elephant: Three Monologues†	Malayalam	Savithri Divakaran	P. Balan	[16]
2004 (52nd)	Timeless Traveller-The Horseshoe Crab†	English	Riverbank Studios	Gautam Pandey	[17]
2005 (53rd)	Under This Sun†	Bengali	Nilanjan Bhattacharya	Nilanjan Bhattacharya	[18]
2006 (54th)	Kalpavriksha: Legacy Of Forests†	English	Mike Pandey	Nina Subramani	[19]
2007 (55th)	Bhanga Ghara	Bengali	FTII	Nilanjan Datta	[20]
2008 (56th)	No Award				[21]
2009 (57th)	In For Motion‡	English	Amlan Dutta	Anirban Dutta	[22]
2010 (58th)	Iron is Hot	English	Meghnath Bhattacharjee	• Biju Toppo  • Meghnath Bhattacharjee	[23]
2011 (59th)	Tiger Dynasty	English	S. Nallamuthu	S. Nallamuthu	[24]
2012 (60th)	Timbaktu‡	English	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	• Rintu Thomas  • Sushmit Ghosh	[25]
2013 (61st)	Foresting Life‡	• Hindi  • Assamese	Humanity Watchdog Foundation	Aarti Shrivastava	[26]
2014 (62nd)	I Cannot Give You My Forest‡	English	Top Quark Films Pvt. Ltd.	• Nandan Saxena  • Kavita Bahl	[27]
2015 (63rd)	The Man Who Dwarfed The Mountains‡	English	• Rajiv Mehrotra  • PSBT	• Ruchi Shrivastava  • Sumit Sunderlal Khanna	[28]
	God On The Edge‡	• Hindi  • English	Elements Picture Studio	Ashok Patel
2016 (64th)	The Tiger Who Crossed The Line‡	English	Krishnendu Bose	Krishnendu Bose	[29]
2017 (65th)	The Pangti Story‡	Naga	Rajiv Mehrotra	Sesino Yhoshü
2018 (66th)	The World's Most Famous Tiger		Natural History Unit India	S. Nallamuthu
2019 (67th)	The Stork Saviours	Hindi	• Rajiv Mehrotra  • PSBT	• Ajay Bedi  • Vijay Bedi	[30]
2020 (68th)	Manah Aru Manuh (Manas and People)	Assamese	Directorate, Manas National Park and Aaranyak	Dip Bhuyan	[31]
2021 (69th)	Munnam Valavu‡	Malayalam	Sree Gokulam Movies	R S Pradeep	[32]