Write down the effort made at the national level for biodiversity conservation.
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Biodiversity is disappearing from the natural ecosystems of forests, savannahs, pastures and rangelands, deserts, tundras, rivers, lakes and seas .This is largely the result of human activity and represents a serious threat to human development. To protect these precious resources for human kind various environmental conservation organisations are working world-wide.
World Conservation Union (IUCN) is the world's largest and most important conservation network that brings together 83 States, 110 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists. Experts from 181 countries work for conservation of natural resources under IUCN's various programmes in a unique worldwide partnership. The World Commission on Protected Areas, Species Survival Commission and Commission on Ecosystem Management of IUCN directly address biodiversity crisis.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) collaborates with a wide range of partners throughout the UN system and beyond to provide information on the state of the planet's natural resources and their contribution to sustainable development. The UNEP has been at the forefront of assessing and monitoring global biodiversity issue. The Convention on Biological Diversity was negotiated under the auspices of the UNEP.
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(i)The Earth Summit was held at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in which representatives of more than 170 countries were present.The summit promoted Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).India became a member of this convention in May 1994.
The important objectives were-
a) Finding and supporting various methods to conserve biological diversity.
b) Use of biodiversity only up to sustainable limit.
c) The benefits derived from use of genetic resources should be fairly and equitably shared.
(ii) A second World Summit on biological diversity was held in 2002 in Johannesburg in which 190 countries pledged to reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss at global, regional and local levels by 2010.
(iii) Indian government passed the Biodiversity Bill in December 2003 to protect India’s biodiversity.
(iv) Government of India has also established a Biodiversity Board at Chennai to ensure proper utilization of biodiversity.
(v) Organizations like World Wildlife Fund (WWW) and World Conservation Union (WCU) provide financial assistance for conservation programmes