Chandigarh’s People’s Biodiversity Register to Document Green Wealth
ICLEI South Asia is developing the People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR) of Chandigarh, with support from the Union Territory’s Department of Forests and Wildlife. Mandated as per the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, the PBR documents the biodiversity and traditional ecological knowledge of an area. To this end, the city’s rich biodiversity was documented during a field visit. […]
City Biodiversity Index of Jammu & Srinagar released
The Hon’ble Lt. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Shri Manoj Sinha released the City Biodiversity Index of the cities of Jammu and Srinagar on the International Day of Forests (March 21) in Jammu. ICLEI South Asia has developed the City Biodiversity Index for the two cities, with support from the United Nations Development Programme and […]