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The Union Territory of Puducherry stands arsenic a grounds to the biodiversity wealthiness of India, National Biodiversity Authority Chairman Virendra R. Tiwari has said.
Speaking astatine an consciousness and capableness gathering programme for Biodiversity Management Committee and Union Territory Biodiversity Council, helium said Puducherry with its unsocial coastal, estuarian ecosystem, mangroves, and affluent accepted cognition strategy stands arsenic an “excellent illustration of India’s biodiversity wealth.”
He besides highlighted the relation played by BMC successful documenting section biodiversity done People’s Biodiversity Registers (PBRs) supporting conservation initiatives, creating assemblage awareness, granting consent for requests, levying charges connected biologic resources and safeguarding accepted knowledge. Mr. Tiwari besides released a brochure arsenic portion of the programme, a merchandise said.
In his address, Chief Wildlife Warden, Puducherry P. Arulrajan said 19 BMCs person been constituted successful Puducherry nether the Biological Diversity Act. These BMCs screen municipality and agrarian regions of the Union Territory. Others who attended the programme, included Commissioner of Oulgaret Municipality Arun Ayavou. The programme was jointly organised by the Association for Promoting Sustainability successful Campuses and Communities, National Biodiversity Authority, Puducherry Biodiversity Council and Pondicherry University.
