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Updating India’s National Biodiversity Action Plan:The Process and Way Forward


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1 Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun - 248 001, India
2 University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
3 Forest Research Institute, Dehradun - 248 006, India
 

The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan is the primary tool for implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the country level. A National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) was prepared for India in 2008, through an inter-ministerial consultative process. Five years later, it was considered necessary to align the existing NBAP in accordance with the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets (ABTs). This was achieved by formulating India’s National Biodiversity Targets (NBTs) and developing a monitoring framework using indicators, and through an evaluation of funding support for biodiversity conservation in India. The draft document was prepared and reviewed through a series of national stakeholder consultations and technical review meetings, based on which the ‘National Biodiversity Action Plan: Addendum 2014 to NBAP 2008’ was finalized. As part of its commitments to the CBD to accomplish the global ABTs, India must ensure effective implementation of the NBAP and meet the NBTs. This requires cooperation amongst all stakeholders including the relevant federal ministries and state level agencies along with a rigorous and time-bound application of the monitoring framework.

Keywords

Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Biodiversity Conservation, Convention on Biological Diversity, National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, National Biodiversity Targets.
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Authors

Malvika Onial
Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun - 248 001, India
Biba Jasmine
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Yashaswi Singh
Forest Research Institute, Dehradun - 248 006, India
Anant Pande
Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun - 248 001, India
Chinnasamy Ramesh
Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun - 248 001, India
Kuppusamy Sivakumar
Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun - 248 001, India
Vinod. B. Mathur
Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun - 248 001, India

Abstract


The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan is the primary tool for implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at the country level. A National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) was prepared for India in 2008, through an inter-ministerial consultative process. Five years later, it was considered necessary to align the existing NBAP in accordance with the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets (ABTs). This was achieved by formulating India’s National Biodiversity Targets (NBTs) and developing a monitoring framework using indicators, and through an evaluation of funding support for biodiversity conservation in India. The draft document was prepared and reviewed through a series of national stakeholder consultations and technical review meetings, based on which the ‘National Biodiversity Action Plan: Addendum 2014 to NBAP 2008’ was finalized. As part of its commitments to the CBD to accomplish the global ABTs, India must ensure effective implementation of the NBAP and meet the NBTs. This requires cooperation amongst all stakeholders including the relevant federal ministries and state level agencies along with a rigorous and time-bound application of the monitoring framework.

Keywords


Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Biodiversity Conservation, Convention on Biological Diversity, National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, National Biodiversity Targets.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv115%2Fi3%2F422-427