Biodiversity Act 2002. By following the ideals of india enacted the biological diversity act in 2002 and notified biological diversity rules in 2004 to give effect to the provisions of this convention. It wanted to draw the attention of authorities towards public agricultural universities indulging in criminal biopiracy of local varieties of eggplant.
The biological diversity act 2002 was passed by the parliament of india to protect biodiversity and facilitate the sustainable management of biological resources with the local communities. The biological diversity act 2002 no. To respect and protect knowledge of local communities related to biodiversity.
The biological diversity act 2002 was passed by the parliament of india to protect biodiversity and facilitate the sustainable management of biological resources with the local communities.
The biological diversity act 2002 is aimed towards conservation of biological diversity sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of biological resource and associated traditional knowledge. The act was enacted to meet the obligations under the united nations convention on biological diversity cbd to which india is a party. The biological diversity act 2002 was passed by the parliament of india to protect biodiversity and facilitate the sustainable management of biological resources with the local communities. We note here that there is no provision for a biodiversity board for a union territory because union territories have been placed under national biodiversity authority.
