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