One day awareness training on People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR) and the process of its verification was organised by Nagaland State Biodiversity Board (NSBB) on May 26 at Kohima.
A press release by NSBB informed that the programme was part of the national celebration of “International Day for Biodiversity 2023”, for which Union Minister of State for environment launched the national campaign on up-dation cum verification of PBR on May 23.
The training in Kohima was attended by college/university students from life sciences background and the members of Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) from different villages.
Subsequent to the training, 21 student participants were assigned several villages to carry out the PBR up-dation cum verification activity on May 27. NSBB said at least 40 PBR verification process would be completed by June 4, 2023. All together 48 participants attended the training.
The training programme and the field activity for PBR verification in Nagaland was supported by the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) and the NERAQ Project, GIZ.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025