Government notifies Two Key Institutions as Repositories under Biological Diversity Act, 2002

India, April 7 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), in consultation with the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has enabled the notification of two institutions - Referral Centre Bhavasagara at CMLRE, Kochi and MACS Collection of Microorganisms and National Fungal Culture Collection at Agharkar Research Institute, Pune - as designated repositories under Section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.

The Section empowers Central Government to designate institutions as repositories for different categories of biological resources. These repositories will support the safe custody of biological materials, including voucher specimens, and strengthen the documentat...