{"id":20419,"date":"2025-09-12T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20419"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:35:42","slug":"biodiversity-heritage-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/biodiversity-heritage-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity Heritage Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Biodiversity Heritage Sites Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government recently declared 8.6 acres of green cover at Cantonment Railway Colony as a biodiversity heritage site \u2014 the second in Bengaluru after Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra (GKVK).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Biodiversity Heritage Sites<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BHS are rich biodiversity areas and are important components of local <\/span><b>ecosystems <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which are being <\/span><b>conserved and managed by the society.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BHS are unique ecosystems <\/span><b>having rich biodiversity comprising<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> any<\/span><b> one or more of the following components:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Richness of wild as well as domesticated species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or intra-specific categories.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>High endemism.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presence of r<\/span><b>are and threatened species, keystone species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and s<\/span><b>pecies of evolutionary significance.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Wild ancestors of domestic\/cultivated species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or their varieties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Past pre-eminence of biological components <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">represented by <\/span><b>fossil beds <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and having significant cultural, ethical or aesthetic values and are important for the maintenance of cultural diversity, <\/span><b>with or without a long history of human association with them.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They may spread over<\/span><b> terrestrial, aquatic, coastal and inland and marine ecosystems <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">having rich biodiversity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under Section-37 of the <\/span><b>Biological Diversity Act, 2002<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>State Government<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in <\/span><b>consultation with local bodie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, may<\/span><b> notify areas <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of biodiversity importance <\/span><b>as BHS.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>State Governments <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are<\/span><b> empowered to frame schemes for compensating <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or rehabilitating any person or section of<\/span><b> people economically affected by such notification.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>State Government<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in <\/span><b>consultation with the Central Government,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> may <\/span><b>frame rules for the management and conservation of BHS.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>creation of BHS <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">may <\/span><b>not put any restriction on the prevailing practices and usages of the local communities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">othe<\/span><b>r than those voluntarily decided by them.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of declaring BHS is to enhance the quality of life of the local communities through the conservation of such sites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">In 2007, the Nallur Tamarind Grove in Bengaluru, Karnataka,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was designated as <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">India\u2019s first BHS.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bengaluru\/bengaluru-gets-its-2nd-biodiversity-heritage-site\/articleshow\/123814994.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biodiversity Heritage Site are areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems having rich biodiversity. 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