News From The Projects

State-wide Workshops on Implementation of Biological Diversity Act, 2002 and Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms in Tamil Nadu

02 Aug, 2018

Tamil Nadu Biological Diversity Rules were notified in 2017, following which 385 block-level Biodiversity Management Committees were..

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Consultation meeting with Irula community to operationalise Access and Benefit Sharing Provisions on Snake Venom Extraction and Trade held in Chennai

01 Aug, 2018

The Tamil Nadu Biodiversity Board (TNBB), Chennai along with the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), Chennai and..

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Side event on ‘Capacity Development for the Implementation of Nagoya Protocol’ during the 2nd Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) in Montreal, Canada

10 Jul, 2018

Dr Sujata Arora, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, New Delhi participated in the side-event, ‘Capacity Development for..

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Consultation workshop on Capacity Needs Assessment for North Bengal region under the project ‘Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation in India’ (HWC) organized in Siliguri, West Bengal

25 Jun, 2018

A regional level consultation workshop for West Bengal was organized on 25th -26th June 2018 at Hotel Sinclairs, Siliguri to..

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Participation in the annual conference of the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) ‘Beauty of Sourcing with Respect’ in June 2018 in Paris, France

20 Jun, 2018

Mr T. Rabikumar, Secretary, National Biodiversity Authority, participated in the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) annual conference for..

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Launch Event workshop for Global project on Private Business Action for Bio-diversity: “Fostering role of Business in Biodiversity Conservation”

12 Jun, 2018

Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, on..

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Workshop on Training of Trainers on Access and Benefit Sharing

30 May, 2018

Maharashtra State Biodiversity Board (MSBB) in cooperation with ABS Partnership Project organized two events on..

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Participation in third Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Dialogue in May 2018 at Mexico City, Mexico

25 May, 2018

Dr. B Meenakumari, Chairperson, National Biodiversity Authority, participated in the “Third ABS Dialogue on Key Challenges and Practical Ways Forward for..

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2018 ESP Asia conference: Call for abstracts open now!

24 May, 2018

GIZ in collaboration with Himachal Pradesh Forest Department is organising a session on..

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