Call to protect bio-diversity

Although the conference failed to send a strong message to the World Trade Organisation that CBD was pre-eminent on matters of bio-diversity, it nevertheless still provided ground for India to pro-actively take a number of measures, he said.

As a part of the measures that ought to come up on the part of India, he said, was the national biodiversity action plan, which has been under discussion and draft stage for over 4 years and should be finalised. The plan focuses especially on re-orienting economic development to ensure conservation and sustainable use of biological resources, Kothari added.He also emphasised the analysis of the impact of domestic and international trade, and of intellectual property rights regimes on the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources and the quitable sharing of benefits arising from such use. 8220;India needs to continue its pressure to reform current intellectual property rights regimes so that they are more supportive of biodiversity and local community areas,8221; he said.

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