Gurgaon: Haryana State Biodiversity Council (HSBB) has formed 6,435 committees to preserve biodiversity and document traditional knowledge about bio-resources.
Members of the Biodiversity Management Committee will be peeled in villages throughout the state and promote habitat conservation, land race conservation, people’s varieties and cultivars and pet stocks.
They will also help chronic knowledge related to biodiversity after consulting local villagers.
This documentation is called the biodiversity registers (PBR).
“PBR is an important document to store traditional knowledge about biodiversity and bio-resources, past and present status and all important information associated with it.
This information is transferred from one generation to another.
It is also important as a legal document to reaffirm The rights of the local community with their biodiversity and specific knowledge associated with it.
Register also formed a mainstay for the Biodiversity Conservation Management Plan, “said Vineet Grag, Chair of the HSBB.
After PBR is scoring, they will be maintained and validated by 6,000 strange committees.
They were more examined by the district level expert committee formed under the deputy commissioner of various districts.
The source said the committee had visited the district to review the PBR prepared by each district and found several shortcomings.
They have said that officials involved in preparing PBR requires guidance on several aspects such as format, taxonomy, traditional knowledge, management team management, etc.
“Given this, a two-day workshop on the development of skills on the documentation of PBR’s expertise and preparation is being held in Panchkula on Thursday and Friday.
The district team and district coordinators need to be trained in the basic concepts related to biodiversity.
PBR must be prepared in accordance with the format Right.
We hope that PBR quality will definitely increase, “Garg said.