Title: Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP) of Sikkim and the Resource Mobilisation Strategy for implementing the BSAP with focus on Khangchendzonga – Upper Teesta Valley
KeyWords: Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Linkages of NBTs with Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs), Synergies between NBTs and NDCs, Scope of Sikkim Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (SBSAP)
Year of Publication: 2021
ISSN No: NA
Author Name: National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
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Background
India, a mega diverse country with only 2.4 prevent of the world's land area, harbours 7-8 percent of all recorded species, including over 47,000 species of plants and 96,000 species of animals. Of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots, four are present in India, represented by the Himalaya, the Western Ghats, the North-east, and the Nicobar Islands.
India recognizes that besides human survival and well-being, millions of livelihoods in the country depend upon biodiversity and healthy ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. Therefore, protection, and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems is of paramount importance in India.
However, the country's biodiversity faces a variety of threats — caused by various anthropogenic activities — ranging from land use changes in natural habitats to overexploitation of natural resources, proliferation of invasive species, and climate change. This calls for effective and urgent action to halt the loss of biodiversity in order to ensure that ecosystems are resilient and continue to provide essential services.
Threats to species and ecosystems are not unique to India but are prevalent in countries all over the world in different dimensions and shapes. It is this recognition that culminated into The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) — which was one of the three international Conventions of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.