The Queen's Award for Forestry was presented to Dr. Ravi Prabhu at Buckingham Palace on 24 February 2005. The award was created to reward a Commonwealth citizen for his or her contribution to forestry and their ability to encourage the development of forestry within Commonwealth countries. Dr. Ravi Prabhu has made outstanding contributions to work on sustainable forest management. He has been a pioneering champion of a new approach to forest management in which how one manages a forest changes over time as the objectives, context, and condition of the forest change.