National Biodiversity Information Outlook

<p>Given India’s national, regional and global aspirations of being a developed, mega-biodiverse nation, it is important to have an accurate and adequate database to assess and monitor the state of biological resources. This would facilitate informed decision making to ensure sustainable development and conservation of biological resources. In order to overcome barriers in free and open access to biodiversity data and information, long term strategy and action plan together with national biodiversity information infrastructure is necessary. This outlook is first step in this direction. Objective of this section is to provide rationale for development of ‘National Biodiversity Information Outlook (NBIO).