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DSI adoption at COP15 can financially help protect biodiversity in India, say expertsThrough the Nagoya Protocol, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to distribute benefits arising from genetic resources between u...
Our future, our voice': What India's youth want from COP15As 196 countries chalk out a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) during the COP15 conference here - a process that began at the U...
NBA chief Vinod B Mathur dismisses concerns about reintroducing cheetahs in national park"There may be a difference of opinion among experts on the project to reintroduce cheetahs from Africa in India. But we should keep in mind...
Nature will provide us solutions: Prakash Javadekar on International Biodiversity DayStressing on this year's theme, Javadekar stressed that solutions are in nature and therefore, protecting the nature is very important espe...
FSII recommends making India global seed production hub & pushes for 200% deduction of R&D expenditure in the seed industryThe income tax deduction for the in-house R&D has been reducing over the last few years, it said. Through an amendment as per Finance Act 2...
India among first five nations to submit Sixth National Report: Enironment MinistryThe submission of national reports is a mandatory obligation on parties to international treaties, including the CBD.
Why red gold is too hot for locals to touch
Tamil Nadu yet to take stock of its natural resources in forestsKerala might be a smaller state compared to Tamil Nadu, but unlike the latter several thousand villagers in Kerala earn a decent living by ...
Iconic Ongole bull, now a cash cow for BrazilFormer chairman of the AP Biodiversity Board, R Hampaiah, said Brazil was in the forefront of the nations exporting beef derived from the O...
- Biodiversity official quits after tussle environment ministry
Chairman of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), Balakrishna Pisupati, resigned from the post reportedly under extreme pressure from ...
Tamil Nadu lagging behind in management of biodiversity: NBATamil Nadu, home to several rare flora and fauna, is lagging behind many other states in implementing the National Biological Diversity Act...
- Norway to try for an agreement on biodiversity
Ahead of the high-level session of the ongoing UN convention on biological diversity, Norway today said it would make efforts to reach on a...
- 100 biodiversity committees in Maharashtra by year-end
Even as the newly constituted Maharashtra State Biodiversity Board (MSBB) is struggling to get funds, it plans to constitute 100 biodiversi...
- NBA to file bio-piracy case against developers of BT Brinjal: Official
NBA) is all set to file the country's firstever bio-piracy criminal case against companies involved in developing BT Brinjal by using its l...
- Monsanto yet to get clearance for hybridisation of onion
Monsanto Holdings is yet to get clearance for using two varieties of Indian onion for hybridisation, Environment Minister Jayanthi Nataraja...
- 12 yrs, Rs 135 crore down the drain
Unfinished tannery relocation in Bengal is typical of many MoEF projects, says CAG in its first-ever nvironment audit.
- Govt plans legal steps to protect biodiversity
The government will soon have a legal framework to regulate or monitor the commercial use of India's biodiversity by both local and foreign...