Training Course on Environmental Impact Assessment for Biodiversity Conservation for Indian Forest Service Officers (7th - 11th September 2009)


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The state of the world’s ecosystems have recently been assessed in detail by an international team of experts under the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment – MEA (2005), who concluded that “Human actions are fundamentally, and to a significant extent irreversibly changing the diversity of life on Earth, and most of these changes represent a loss of biodiversity”. The MEA (2005) notes that such biodiversity targets and the UN Millennium Development Goals can only be achieved if the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity becomes an integral component of sectoral economic development. Consequently, it is now becoming more widely accepted that the conservation of biodiversity is the responsibility of all sectors of society, and action is required and expected from governments, conservation organizations, business community and wider society.

Finding innovative ways to link biodiversity conservation with development and growth is crucial to helping biodiversity conservation efforts succeed for ethical, cultural and economic reasons. Tools for mainstreaming biodiversity in impact assessment and also in development decisions can help to exercise best development options with due recognition of the conservation goals for safeguarding threatened bio-resources and critical ecosystem goods and services.

This course aims to empower the natural resource managers for a careful review of proposals seeking diversion of forested areas for developments in economic sectors such as mineral extraction, dam building and linear alignments of roads and power grids through forested areas.

 Training Course on Environmental Impact Assessment for Biodiversity Conservation for Indian Forest Service Officers (7th - 11th September 2009)

 

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