• Investing in Nature-India-Small Grant Project Scheme Takes Off ....................................... 1

  Eleven Small Grant Projects awardees: ..... 2

  • KUBG Project.................................. 3
  • GBPIHED Project............................. 3
  • BSI-WC Pune Project .......................4
  • MSUB Project ................................. 4
  • Arogyadham Project ........................ 5
  • JMEG Project .................................. 5
  • OCR, Tipi ........................................ 6
  • MSSRF Project ................................ 6
  • CZPCC Project ................................ 7
  • MCC Project .................................... 7
  • ABG Project ..................................... 8

  II Profiles of Gardens of Small Grant
  Scheme ...................................................... 9

  • BSI-WC, Pune ............................. 9
  • JMEG, Jharkhali .......................... 10
  • KUBG, Srinagar .......................... 10
  • CZPCC, Coimbtore ......................12
  • Arogyadham, Chitrakoot ............. 12

  III Plantation of RET species in field ........... 13

• India participates in GBIF ..................... 14
• Nursery management of Ornamental ...... Uttaranchal ........................................... 16
• IIN-India Training Workshop.................. 17
• Forthcoming events .............................. 20

Investing in Nature-India-Small Grant Project
Scheme Takes Off

Under the Investing in Nature-India (IIN-India) the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) and Botanic Garden Conservation International (BGCI) have initiated a National Plant Conservation Programme (NPCP) with the prime objective of providing guidance and support to partner botanic gardens in India in plant conservation activities, with a focus on acheiving practical conservation of about 600 Rare, Endangered and Threatened (RET) plants of India in botanic gardens through ex-situ and integrated conservation strategies.

The National Plant Conservation Programme is an important initiative to acheive the target 8 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), which aims at “60% of threatened plant species in accessible ex-situ collections, preferably in the country of origin and 10% of them included in recovery and restoration programme”.

One of the significant activities under this programme is to implement a small grant project scheme through award of several grants per annum for two years in support of the best Indian botanic garden project in plant conservation.