India has stake in protecting genetic resources

Chennai: The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has issued guidelines for preparing people's biodiversity register and identifying and declaring biodiversity heritage sites, said its chairman P.L. Gautam on Thursday.

Dr R. Hampaiah, heading the Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Board, a statutory body set up by the Central government under the Biological Diversity Act 2002, is demanding Monsanto India pay royalty for using a bacteria strain that can be traced to the Mahanandi village in Kurnool district.

KOCHI: The Ministry of Environment and Forests has issued a notification under the Biological Diversity Act (2002) and released a revised list of endangered species in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala.

Latha Jishnu / New Delhi July 08, 2009, 0:42 IST

Asbestos free schools: Paving the way for a complete ban on asbestos and its products, Kerala Human Rights Commission said

Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group in Delhi and international non-profit grain recently came up with a brochure, which highlights redressal mechanisms as well as biases and lacunae in the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. The brochure, Offences, Disputes and Remedies under India

Kartyk Venkatraman

The arrest and conviction of Czech entomologists Dr Petr Svacha and Emil Kucera for collecting insect specimens without prior Government authorisation from the Darjeeling forest area has virtually pitted the scientific community in India against the lawmakers. Ever since 2002, when the stringent Biological Diversity Act, 2002, was enacted, scientists have been railing against its provisions which, they claim, are stymying research while aiming at conservation.