Revisiting India's Biodiversity Planning Process

Abstract

"After much active negotiation with countries of the North and South, India signed the Convention for Biological Diversity in 1992. The Convention required every member country to formulate its own National Biodiversity Strategy, and Action Plan. In 1999, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) nominated Kalpavriksh, an NGO long engaged with conservation and environment issues, to coordinate the process. I review the ways in which NGOs, state agencies and activists participated in the preparation of Indias National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) between 1999 and 2004."