Tamil Nadu plans to make available the People’s Biodiversity Registers (PBR) online.
It is an effort to protect its natural resources as well as traditional knowledge of its people.
It will be the first in the country to make the inventory of valuable natural resources online.
Making an inventory of animals and plants is mandated by the National Biological Diversity Act of 2002.
The register apart from covering plants, herbs and wildlife, also covers cropland, fruit plants, fodder crops, people’s scape, landscapes and waterscapes.