Mangalore, Nov. 28: Three days training of trainers (TOT) for selected BMC members and NGOs from the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Utharkhana was inaugurated in the city today Thursday Nov, 28.
The workshop has been organised as per the MoEF- GEF- UNDP project ‘mainstreaming conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants in three Indian states’ which has taken key initiative to document the biological resources, traditional knowledge and protect intellectual property of the knowledge holders.
Through the project, training have been conducted to bring awareness across various stake holders on Biological diversity act, documentation of traditional knowledge and preparation of people’s biodiversity registers. The community Bio cultural protocols have been prepared to support the access and benefit sharing mechanism. Further, the project envisages strengthening the process of formation and functioning of biodiversity management committees in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Uttarkhand.
BD Act was enacted by India in 2003. CBD and Nagoya Protocol clearly lay the principles of access and benefit sharing on utilization of bio resources. Several countries are developing and implementing ABS actions and no doubt such action must involve local governments, local communities, R & D Practitioners, private enterpreneurs, legal professionals, sociologists. It has huge social, economic and environmental implications. It has taken over a decade to initiate to organize this kind of Training for Trainers said Dr. KS Sugara IFS, APCCF, Karnataka Forest Dept & Member Secretary, Karnataka Biodiversity Board.
He further said that the Science of biodiversity conservation has undergone sea changes from conservation centered to community centered, from logic based to legal based and from policy based to practice based. Biodiversity law, policy and governance, Biodiversity and valuation of economy, Knowledge and expertise to manage complex web of issues, Access and Benefit Sharing mechanism, a linkage to livelihood are the key aspects will guide us in our future work on biodiversity.
Sanjay Bijjur IFS, CCF, Mangalore Circle, Palaiah IFS, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Mangalore Division, Dr Subhash Chnadran, CES, IISc and Dr KV Rao, Director, Training, Pillikula Nisarga Dham were present at the work shop.
