India Biodiversity Award
The National Biodiversity Authority, the United Nations Development Program, and the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Climate Change collaborated to create the India Biodiversity Awards. It is a cutting-edge mechanism for identifying and appreciating the efforts of people, groups, and organisations engaged in the governance of biodiversity, access and benefit sharing, sustainable use of biological resources, and conservation of biodiversity.
A memento, a certificate, and a monetary award of Rs. 5 lakhs will be handed to the winners of the India Biodiversity Awards in 2023 for each category. Each category will get two certificates of recognition, each with a cash award of Rs. 1 lakh.
Category-1; Conservation And Sustainable Use Of Biological Resources
The award seeks to honour those who have worked hard to manage and conserve biological resources in an equitable and sustainable way, including people, organisations, and businesses (both public and private).
Category-2; Incentivizing Access And Benefit Sharing
The award is intended to recognise organisations (body corporate) that fully implement the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) process, as well as projects that significantly increase the equitable financial and/or non-financial sharing of benefits resulting from the use of biological resources with communities and other interested parties.
Category-3; Best Biodiversity Management Commitee
The award is intended to honour the outstanding work done by biodiversity management committees in documenting biological resources and related traditional knowledge through People's Biodiversity Registers (PBRs), raising awareness, establishing best practises in biodiversity conservation, sustainable use, social equity, empowerment, and equitable benefit sharing with resource protectors.
Category-4; Best People’s Biodiversity Register
The prize aims to recognise a variety of innovative and conventional approaches, including the use of digital technology to record peoples' biodiversity registers and realise the potential of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS).
Each category's winner will get a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh, and each category will also receive two Certificates of Appreciation with cash prizes of Rs. 1 lakh each.
Background;
In order to recognise excellence in biodiversity governance throughout the nation, the Government of India's Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change launched the India Biodiversity Awards in 2012 in collaboration with UNDP India.
The first round of Awards was introduced in 2012, while India was in charge of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity's Eleventh Meeting. The National Biodiversity Authority of India is a partner in the award selection process.
The 2012 India Biodiversity Awards Winners Include-
The Odisha organisation Pir Jahania Jungle Suraksha Samiti won the community stewardship category;
Decentralized management category used by the Maharashtrian Shankarpur Village Gram Panchayat;
In the area of co-management, Van Utthan Sansthan from Rajasthan;
Periyar Tiger Reserve falls under the category of protected places.
Individual Winner Of The Conservation Of Domesticated Species Category For The India Biodiversity Award 2021?
The Kerala "Tuber Man," Shaji N.M., received the India Biodiversity Award 2021 in the category of domesticated species conservation.
Who Was The Institution Category Winner Of The Sustainable Use Of Biological Resources For The India Biodiversity Award (2021)?
The Sustainable Use of Biological Resources category of the India Biodiversity Awards 2021 was won by Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS) for its work restoring water and harvesting structures in Orans, a sacred community-conserved area in Rajasthan.
Also, In the category of Sustainable Use of Biological Resources, the India Biodiversity Awards 2021 went to Khonoma Nature Conservation & Tragopan Sanctuary (KNCTS) for preserving biodiversity in the Nagaland region's Khonoma region, which is home to various endemic species of flora and wildlife.
National Biodiversity Authority;
In order to carry out India's Biological Diversity Act (2002), the Central Government formed the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) in 2003. The NBA is a statutory body that serves the Indian government in a facilitative, regulatory, and advising capacity on matters pertaining to biological resource conservation, sustainable use, and fair and equitable benefit sharing.
The Biological Diversity Act of 2002 requires that the provisions of the Act be implemented through a decentralised system, with the NBA focusing on providing advice to the Central Government on matters relating to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of its components, and equitable sharing of benefits resulting from the use of biological resources; providing advice to the State Government in the selection of areas of biodiversity importance to be notified under Sub-Section (1) of Section 37 as heritage sites and measures for the management of such heritage sites.
The‘State Biodiversity Boards’ (SBBs) advise the State Governments, subject to any guidelines issued by central government on issues relating to the conservation of biodiversity, sustainable use of its components, and equitable sharing of the benefits resulting from the utilisation of biological resources.
The SBBs also exercise control by approving or otherwise for the commercial use, or bio-survey, and/or bio-utilization of any biological resource by the Indian.
The local level biodiversity management committees (BMCs) are in charge of encouraging biological diversity conservation, sustainable use, and documentation, including habitat preservation, conservation of land races, folk variants, and cultivators, domesticated stocks and breeds of animals, and microorganisms, in addition to preserving knowledge about biological diversity.
The Authority, secretariat, SBBs, BMCs, and Expert Committees make up the framework through which the NBA, which has its headquarters in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, carries out its purpose.
Since its founding, NBA has assisted in the establishment of 2,76,690 BMCs, UT’s, and SBBs in 28 States.
Abbreviation- NBA
Formation- 1 October 2003
Type- Government agency
Purpose- Implementation of Biological Diversity Act, 2002
Location- Chennai, India
Region served- India
Chairperson - Dr. V. B. Mathur, IFS
Parent organization- Ministry of Environment , Forests, and climate change, Government of India