Biodiversity Conservation in India

India is one of the few countries where forest cover is on the rise and forests are teeming with wildlife. It has only 2.4% of the geographical area of the world, but harbours nearly 8% of the globally known floral and faunal species. India’s sixth National Report (NR6) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which provides an update of progress in achievement of 12 National Biodiversity Targets (NBT) developed under the Convention process in line with the 20 global Aichi biodiversity targets, also points towards credible implementation of biodiversity conservation programmes in India and it is on track to ....