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India submits Sixth National Report to CBD
December 30 , 2018
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- India has recently submitted its Sixth National Report (NR6) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
- It has been submitted at the inaugural session of the 13th National Meeting of the State Biodiversity Boards (SBBs) in New Delhi.
- India is among the first 5 countries in the world, the 1st in Asia and the 1st among the bio-diversity rich megadiverse countries to have submitted NR6 to the CBD Secretariat.
- The NR6 provides an update of progress in achievement of 12 National Biodiversity Targets (NBT) developed under the Convention process in line with the 20 global Aichi biodiversity targets.
- In India only 0.08% of the species recorded are in the category of ‘Endangered Species’.
- India has nearly 2/3rd of the population of wild tigers in the world.
- One-horned Indian Rhino which was on the brink of extinction earlier, now numbers 2400.
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