What ails biodiversity conservation in India: Down To Earth and CSE release new analysis to mark World Biodiversity Day
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi, India
PRESS RELEASE
World Biodiversity Day Special
Biodiversity conservation and benefit sharing with
communities has become a meaningless exercise,
finds a new Down To Earth analysis
Find the proceedings of our World Biodiversity Day webinar here:
Biodiversity conservation is an absolute imperative today, but is India serious about it?
Notwithstanding the alacrity that the country has shown in ratifying and supporting international biodiversity conventions or in enacting domestic laws and regulations, India’s record in conservation and use of its bioresources has been quite dismal – finds an investigative analysis done by Down To Earth (DTE) magazine.
Thirty years ago, in 1992, the world had agreed on a landmark global treat...