Four More Biodiversity Heritage Sites Declared For Karnataka

 The Karnataka Biodiversity Board has chosen to proclaim four additional zones in the State as biodiversity legacy locales. Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS) are characterized territories with interesting, environmentally delicate biological systems – earthly, seaside, and inland waters or marine having a rich biodiversity.

Highlights: 

♦ The State Governments can tell the Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS) in the conference with neighbourhood overseeing bodies under Section 37 of the Biological Diversity Act of 2002.  

♦ Under sub-segment (2) of Section 37, the State Government in the conference with the Central Government may outline rules for BHS's administration and protection.

♦ Advising a region as a biodiversity legacy site will help secure the rich and novel biological system in a specific territory from additional destruction. 

♦ This would enable not just assistance to preserve the district's biodiversity yet, also, guarantee biological security and feasible improvement for people too, given that such regions also regularly speak to interfaces between nature, culture, and society.

♦ Given that BHS also underscores a participatory way to deal with preservation efforts, the notice would help ingrain and support protection morals in all general public areas.

♦ The proposed biodiversity heritage sites include: 

- Antaragange Betta in Kolar–This zone has an exceptional and perpetual water source streaming all as the year progressed. 

- Aadi Narayana Swamy Betta in Chickballapur–It fills in as an environment to many dry-belt species secured by local people. 

- Mahima Ranga Betta in Nelamangala, Bengaluru–It is an unmistakable lung space making due in Bengaluru. 

- Urumbi territory on the Kumaradhara stream bowl in Dakshina Kannada–This zone has a delicate natural framework, and there was a proposition to set a little scope hydro plant in this district.  

Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS): 

Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS) is described by at least one of the accompanying segments: a wealth of wild just as trained species or intra-explicit classifications, high endemism, presence of uncommon and compromised species, cornerstone species, types of developmental hugeness, wild precursors of homegrown/developed species or their assortments, past pre-prominence of natural parts spoke to by fossil beds and having critical social, moral or stylish qualities and are significant for the support of social variety, with or without a long history of the human relationship with them.