• The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 is an Act by the Parliament of India for the preservation of biological diversity in India, and provides the mechanism...
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  • The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty. The Convention has three main...
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    implement the provisions under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, after India signed Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992. Headquartered in...
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  • Pollution) Act, 1981; The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986; The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991; The Biological Diversity Act, 2002. National Green...
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    protected forests of India Communal forests of India Biological Diversity Act, 2002 Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education Menon, Jisha (2013)...
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  • The Center for Biological Diversity is a nonprofit membership organization known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific...
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  • species". India has the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972, Amended 2003 and the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. In Japan, the Ministry of Environment publishes...
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  • 22(1) of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, and is governed by the Biodiversity Act, Rules, 2004, and the Kerala State Biological Diversity Rules, 2008...
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    Mammal Protection Act and US Endangered Species Act, and international treaties such as the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Convention...
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    preservation goals. India passed the Biological Diversity Act in 2002 for the conservation of biological diversity in India. The Act also provides mechanisms for...
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  • measures to protect TK are The Biological Diversity Act (2002), The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act (2001) and The Geographical Indication...
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    Site in November 2016 by the Ministry of Environment under the Biological Diversity Act 2002 because of the large number of migratory birds that thrive there...
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    by the Government of Maharashtra in January 2012 under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, is the nodal body for the conservation of biodiversity within...
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    protection Act, 1972 The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 and the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. The acts covered under Indian Wild Life Protection Act 1972...
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    in India Indian Forest Act, 1927 Forest Conservation Act, 1980 Environment Protection Act, 1986 Biological Diversity Act, 2002 The Scheduled Tribes and...
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  • International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants Biological Diversity Act, 2002 http://agricoop.nic.in/PPV&FR%20Act,%202001.pdf [bare URL PDF]...
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    and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 Biological Diversity Act, 2002 Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 Forest Conservation Act, 1980 Hazardous Waste Handling...
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    Pollution) Act (1981) and the Environment (Protection) Act (1986), Biological Diversity Act(2002). The responsible body for this is the Central Pollution Control...
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    a biological community, including the number of different niches, the number of and other ecological processes. An example of ecological diversity on...
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  • (1997) 1 SCC 388 Biological Diversity Act, 2002 Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001 Wild Life Protection Act, 1972, which does...
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  • in developing the Bt brinjal for allegedly violating India's Biological Diversity Act, 2002 by using local cultivars and foreign technology without their...
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    species. Changes in genetic diversity, such as in loss of species, leads to a loss of biological diversity. Loss of genetic diversity in domestic animal populations...
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    acknowledge her support in microbial diversity research in India and simplifying provisions of the Biological diversity Act, 2002, a newly discovered microbial...
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    contributed extensively to the development of biological knowledge. He explored biological causation and the diversity of life. His successor, Theophrastus, began...
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  • of biological diversity can be carried out. National park is preserved so that ecotourism, education, and the preservation of biological diversity can...
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    Madhav Gadgil (category Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science)
    draft committee, has been reported in the preparation of the Biological Diversity Act 2002 and the manual he prepared for the People's Biodiversity Registers...
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  • consultation with local governing bodies under Section 37 of Biological Diversity Act of 2002. These areas are considered unique and fragile ecosystems....
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    one of the founders and the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit conservation group known for its protection of endangered...
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  • International Year of Biodiversity (category Convention on Biological Diversity)
    International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) was a year-long celebration of biological diversity and its importance, taking place internationally in 2010. Coinciding...
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  • States has moved away from a typological understanding of human biological diversity towards a genomic and population-based perspective. Anthropologists...
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