301.31 P04 (CES) Karnataka State of Environment Report and Action Plan Biodiversity Sector Madhav Gadgil In collaboration with Achar K. P., Ameen Ahmed, Amit Agarwal, Arun Venkataraman, Ashok V, Balakrishna H, Bangari A, Bhadregowda L V, Chakravarthy A. K., Chandrashekariah H. N, Chengappa, Chennesh, Geetha Gadagkar, Girija Shankar, Gundappa B. V., Guru Prasad T. V., Harish Bhat, Hegde Anantha Ashisara, Hema H N, Hiremath B. S., Hussain S. A., Jayaram, Krishnaiah K R, Kubendra Naik, Kushalappa C. G., Lakshminarayana K. C., Laxminarayana, Madhyastha N. A., Manjappa S, Mohini Poojari, Murthy C. K., Murthy T. V. N., Nagaraj G, Nagaraju P, Nagendra R, Narasimha Murthy B, Narasimhan V., Narendra Ajay, Nyla Coehlo, Pandurangaiah D, Piran P. A., Prema Iyer, Rahaman M. F., Rajendran, Rajgopal Shetty, Ramanna, Ramesh Kumar B S, Ranganath M S, Ranganathan N., Reddy S. C. V., S.G. Neginhal, Sathyanarayan Bhat, Shanmugam M, Shanmukappa, Shetty Y. N., Shiva Murthy M S, Shivaprakash, Siddananjappa S, Sivan V. V., Sridhar.S, Srikantaiah G. N., Srinidhi S., Srinivas R, Srinivasa S., Subash Chandran M. D., Subramanian K. A.,Sudhira, Swaminath M. H., Talavar H T, Udayshankar H M, T.V. Ramachandra, Utthappa, Yatiraju C., Yogesh Gokhale ENVIS Technical Report No. 16 Environmental Information System (ENVIS) Centre for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012, India Email:
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[email protected] Web: http://www.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/envis December 2004 Table of contents 1. Current status of the sector.......................................................................................................... 1 BOX 1: BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ACT............................................................................................................................. 2 BOX 2: PEOPLE’S BIODIVERSITY REGISTER ..................................................................................................................