Programmes launched in India towards biodiversity conservation:
✅ The Union Budget 2023 : It mentioned “Green Growth” as one of the seven priorities/Saptarishis.
✅The National Mission for a Green India : It aims to increase forest cover on degraded lands and protect existing forested lands.
✅The Green Credit Programme: It incentivises environmentally sustainable and responsive actions by companies, individuals and local bodies.
✅ The Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes ( MISHTI ) :It is significant because of the importance of mangroves and coastal ecosystems in mitigating climate change.
✅The PM Programme for Restoration, Awareness, Nourishment, and Amelioration of Mother Earth (PM-PRANAM): It aims to reduce inputs of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, which is critical for sustaining agriculture.
✅The Amrit Dharohar scheme: It is expected to encourage optimal use of wetlands and enhance biodiversity, carbon stock, eco-tourism opportunities and income generation for local communities.
The recent intervention by the Union Ministry of Environment to stop the draining of Haiderpur a Ramasar wetland in UP to safeguard migratory waterfowl is encouraging.
