Current Affair 1:

News:

India recently released the updated National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan (NBSAP).

This NBSAP is the third that the government has developed since 2000.

History:

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The first NBSAP was created in 1999. The National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) was adopted in 2008 and was updated in 2014 (second) to align with Aichi Biodiversity Targets. And third in 2024.

In brief, what is mentioned in the updated plan?

India has set 23 targets, like the KMGBF under six broad conservation domains.

These are area-based conservation, increased ecosystem resilience, recovery, rehabilitation, and conservation of threatened species, conservation of agrobiodiversity, sustainable management and use of biodiversity, and enabling conditions, tools, and solutions for implementation. 

The document also provides a financial plan. The Biodiversity Expenditure Review and Biodiversity Finance Solutions were conducted, and the average annual attributable biodiversity expenditure for the period FY 2017-2018 to 2021-2022 was estimated at Rs 32,20,713 crore at the Government of India level.

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