Title: Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) Identification and Monitoring
Printed Year: 2020
Details:
Duration - 14 January 2020 till 2 February 2020
Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) has been conceived as a new global standard to identify areas crucial for biodiversity taxa including both flora and fauna. The KBA criteria is based on the Important Bird Area (IBA) and it is expected that India will evaluate its KBAs once every 8–12 years.
All IBAs in India are effectively KBAs and currently, there are 554 KBAs in the country. However, the KBA criteria focuses not only on birds but all other taxa and underlines the need to identify important sites for the persistence of all species in the country; hence, the number of KBAs is bound to increase with time. These sites may be outside existing Protected Areas and may require community conservation approach if they have to be protected. Keeping in mind the human power needed to skilfully identify and monitor KBAs, ENVIS-BNHS designed this technical training course for the youth in rural areas where local communities depend heavily on natural bioresources. The principal objective of this course was to make students aware of the science behind KBAs and impart them with skills in monitoring and identifying sites.
