This document discusses India's natural heritage and biodiversity. It introduces UNESCO's World Heritage Biodiversity Programme in India, which aims to conserve examples of natural areas identified as World Heritage sites. These include Kaziranga and Manas National Parks in Assam, Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan, and Nanda Devi National Park in Uttarakhand. The document also provides details on several Biodiversity Heritage Sites in India, including Nallur Tamarind Grove in Bengaluru, Hogrekan in Chikmagalur, Ambaraguda in Shimoga, and the University of Agricultural Sciences campus in Bengaluru. The importance of conserving these areas for their unique biodiversity

1. Our Natural Heritage
Local Environment
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10. Heritage
 Property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance.
 Valued objects and qualities such as cultural
traditions, unspoiled countryside, and historic
buildings that have been passed down from...

11. UNESCO’s World Heritage
Biodiversity Programme in India
 It was formally launched on 25 July, 2007, by the
Honorable Minister of State, Environment and forest,
Government of India, Shri Sevugan Regupathy. at a
one-day workshop held in New Delhi.
 The project seeks to conserve the earth’s most spectacular
examples of natural and biological heritage in India, which
have been identified as the World Heritage Biodiversity
sites by UNESCO. The project will focus mainly on
community participation in the management of the
protected area and capacity building of the park
management. The study area for the project will cover four
World Heritage Biodiversity sites- Kaziranga and Manas in
Assam, Keoladeo (also sometimes referred to as Ghana) in
Rajasthan and Nanda Devi in Uttaranchal.

12. Biodiversity Heritage Sites
Name of the Site Nallur Tamarind Grove
Name of the District Bengaluru
Taluk Devanahalli
Area 54 acres
Importance of the It is popularly believed to be a relic of the Chola Dynasty that ruled
area nearly 800 years ago, is spectacle of awesome wonder and a
freakish site. This BHS spread over 54 acres comprising a
population of nearly 300 trees, is a picture of dynamic pattern of
plant diversity. The significant component of this popular structure is
a group of old plants standing like ageless sentinels, firmly rooted to
the ground with their gigantic trunks, along with large picturesque
crowns spread very high and aloft like open wings.
Government Aaapaji 154 ENV 2006, B'lore dt.24.01.2007
Notification

13. Biodiversity Heritage Sites
Name of the Site Hogrekan
Name of the District Chikmagalur
Taluk Kadur
Gram Panchayat Balliganuru
Area 2508.15 acres
Importance of the The area has unique Shola vegetation and grass land with number
area of floral species which are unique and having lot of medicinal value.
Hogrekan is moderately wooded land and its vegetation is of dry
deciduous type and has a link with Bababudanagiri and
Kemmangundi, adjoining Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary and
Yemmedode Tiger Reserve and serving as "Wildlife Corridor"
between Kudremukha and Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary.
Government No.FEE.35 ENV 2009 dated 4.9.2010
Notification

14. Biodiversity Heritage Sites
Name of the University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Name of the
Site Campus, Bengaluru Ambaraguda
Site
Name of the Bengaluru
Name of the Shimoga
District
District
Area 167 hectares
Area 3857.12 hectares
Importance The GKVK campus is considered one of
of the area the greenest areas in Bengaluru. Biological
diversity of this campus constitutes a Importance It is a revenue land located between
critical repository of various forms of flora of the area Sharavathi Wild Life Sanctuary and
and fauna (including 13 sp of mammals, 10 Someshwara Wildlife Sanctuary. It has
sp of reptiles, 165 sp of birds and 530 sp of Shola vegetation which is primitive
plants) which needs to be protected vegetation in the Western Ghat and also
nurtured to posterity. has grasslands.
Government 2011
Government No.FEE.132 ENV 2009 dated 2.9.2010 Notification
Notification

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