India and adjoining countires with diversity of people, culture and livelihoods
are endowed with rich biological diversity and genetic resources. The country in
the past millennium contributed immensely towards the development of
bio-resource and the management of environment for the welfare of the society
and posterity. India has leaped high among the developing countires with the
richness of resources and their sustainable management to be placed among the
developed nations within foreseable future.
About Author :
Dr. Sas. Biswas has over three decades of experience in systematic and
biodiversity studies in India and along the biodiversity rich tracts of
Indo-Tibet, Indo-Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sino-Himalayan borders
covering