The policy brief entitled Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Biodiversity: Understanding the potential of agricultural standards for biodiversity protection examines the intersection between voluntary sustainability standard and the conservation of biodiversity.

The policy brief entitled Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Biodiversity: Understanding the potential of agricultural standards for biodiversity protection examines the intersection between voluntary sustainability standard and the conservation of biodiversity.

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub section (1) of section 63 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (Central Act No.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of M.P. Beer Products Ltd. Vs. M.P.State Bio Diversity Board & Ors. dated 21/02/2014 regarding the application of the National Biodiversity Board (NBA) . NBA has requested for more time to submit the guidelines.

Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/67-2013(OA)_21Feb2014.pdf

By suggesting that even coal extraction falls within provisions of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and its specifi c provision of access and benefi t-sharing, the Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board has raised important questions relating to the interpretation of the law. While the principle of profit sharing from commercial use of biological sources is justifi able, the authors argue that the principle of the conservation ethic should not be lost.

Over the last few years the Ministry of Environment and Forests has become a rubber stamp for the most destructive and unsustainable process of

Ashish Kothari & Kanchi Kohli:

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

an indian court has convicted two Czech nationals arrested for illegally collecting insects in Singalila National Park, West Bengal. On September 10, the chief judicial magistrate in Darjeeling sentenced Emil Kucera to three years in jail and fined him Rs 50,000. Entomologist Petr Svacha was fined Rs 20,000. The Czechs were arrested in June in Darjeeling. This is the quickest wildlife

Working just south of Valent

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