Butterfly Garden to Bring People Closer to Nature in Kochi
Subhash Park in Kochi, Kerala, is set to create a buzz by opening a nature interpretation centre, a pollinator garden and a herbal garden soon. These new attractions in the city are pilot projects aimed at connecting the urban population with biodiversity, an initiative by ICLEI South Asia under the INTERACT-Bio project, which is funded by […]
Kochi to Get a New ‘Butterfly’ Garden Soon
Subhash Park in Kochi, Kerala, will soon be aflutter with butterflies and moths. ICLEI South Asia is setting up a pollinator garden there under the INTERACT-Bio project. This initiative has been launched in the month of September and coincides with the Big Butterfly Month. The INTERACT-Bio project is funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of the […]
Pictorial book celebrates wild edibles of Goa
Wild edible plants play an important role in the food of the communities living in Goa. While they form a significant portion of the cuisine in different seasons, they often remain undocumented. These biological resources are vanishing fast due to rapid urbanisation, and with them the associated traditional ecological knowledge. To counter this trend and […]
City Biodiversity Index to Help Assess Conservation Efforts in Gangtok
ICLEI South Asia has developed the City Biodiversity Index of Gangtok as part of the INTERACT-Bio project, which is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). This is the only biodiversity index designed specifically for monitoring and evaluating biodiversity in cities. It is a self-assessment tool that will help […]
Comic book conveys the significance of nature based solutions to combat climate change
Local action moves the world! This fact has been highlighted even more in the present scenario. Rapid urbanization has led to environmental degradation across the globe. Loss of biodiversity, particularly in the urban areas has several cascading and far reaching consequences. Biodiversity provides ecosystem goods and services and also has benefits such as Flood Control, […]
Panaji’s illustrated natural asset map released
Dr. Puneet Goel, Principal Secretary, Forest & Environment, Government of Goa, India, recently released the illustrated natural asset map of Panaji, the capital of the state of Goa, at an event held recently. Dr Pradip Sarmokadam, Member Secretary, Goa State Biodiversity Board; Mr. Gino van Begin, Secretary General, ICLEI; and Mrs. Hansa Patel, Chairperson, ICLEI […]
Workshop Gives Shape to Gangtok LBSAP's Vision, Focus Areas
ICLEI South Asia is developing the Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (LBSAP) for Gangtok. The LBSAP will help to mainstream biodiversity conservation into urban planning. A stakeholder consultation, held in Gangtok in December 2019 to develop the LBSAP, was attended by government officials, and representatives from NGOs and academia. The workshop helped to develop […]
Expert Meeting Identifies Focus Areas for Kochi's LBSAP
ICLEI South Asia is developing the Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (LBSAP) for Kochi under the INTERACT-Bio: Integrated sub-national action for Biodiversity supported by Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). In this regard, a meeting of the technical working group, comprising experts, was held in Kochi in November to […]
INTERACT-Bio Event Spotlights Urban Biodiversity Issues
A two-day National Outreach Event on Urban Biodiversity was organised in collaboration with the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, as part of the INTERACT-Bio project, which is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The event was attended by leaders and officials from 25 cities and three […]
Kochi’s Illustrated Natural Asset Map Show Blue-Green Infrastructure
Natural asset maps have been developed for project cities under the INTERACT-Bio project, supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety. These maps show the blue-green infrastructure of the cities on the geographic information systems (GIS) platform.In order to communicate the significance of the ecosystems in the city to the […]