diff --git a/ingest/environment.yml b/ingest/environment.yml
index dfdb16cb2a..2dc1dad3d3 100644
--- a/ingest/environment.yml
+++ b/ingest/environment.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dependencies:
   - biopython
   - click
   - jsonlines
-  - ncbi-datasets-cli >=16.18.1
+  - ncbi-datasets-cli >=16.20.0
   - pandas
   - PyYAML
   - requests