Lok Sabha Question No. 2125 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-29
Subject: Bio-Diversity Parks
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: POONAM  MAHAJAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT,FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2125

TO BE ANSEWERED ON 29.11.2016

## Bio-Diversity Parks

## 2125    SHRIMATI POONAM MAHAJAN

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of bio-diversity parks in the country,State-wise;
- (b) the species of plants and trees facing threat of extinction during the last three years and the current year,and
- (c) whether the Government provides funds for the growth of the bio-diversity parks and if so,the details thereof during the said period,State-wise?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  FOR  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## (SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

- (a) The  Biodiversity  Park  concept  was  implemented  for  the  first  time  in  Delhi  by Delhi  Development  Authority  (DDA)in  collaboration  with  the  University  of Delhi. Details of Biodiversity Parks set up and proposed at various places in India is Annexed,
- (b) Botanical  Survey  of  India  (BSI)  under  this  Ministry  mandated  with  Survey, documentation  and  status  assessment  of  all  plant  species,  has  been  conducting floristic  surveys  for  threat  assessment  and  inventorying  of  threatened  plant species. Based on the studies BSI has already published four Volumes of Red List of threatened Vascular plant species of India, according to which there are 1236 species  belonging  to  different  threatened  categories  like  Critically  Endangered  , Endangered  ,  Vulnerable  etc.  As  per  the  research  data  available  with  BSI,  18 species of plants are considered as possibly extinct as they have not been collected from wild for more than fifty years. Further , it is to state that the list of threatened species is never static and the conservation status of a plant may vary for several reasons, one of them being the observability.
- (c) No,Sir.

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN PART (a) OF THE REPLY TO THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2125 TO BE ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 29.11.2016 REGARDING BIO-DIVERSITY PARKS.

|   S.No. | Name of Biodiversity parks set up/proposed                       | State       | Area (in Ha)   |
|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|----------------|
|       1 | Yamuna Biodiversity                                              | Delhi-NCR   | 184.94         |
|       2 | Aravalli Bio- diversity parks                                    | Delhi-NCR   | 279.35         |
|       3 | Northern Ridge                                                   | Delhi-NCR   | 87             |
|       4 | Tipath Valley                                                    | Delhi-NCR   | 70             |
|       5 | Neela Hauz                                                       | Delhi-NCR   | 3.90           |
|       6 | Biodiversity Park, Ranchi                                        | Jharkhand   | 219.34         |
|       7 | Tendong State Biodiversity Park, Namchi,                         | Sikkim      | 255            |
|       8 | Jayaprakash Narayan Biodiversity Park Bangalore                  | Karnataka   | 34.39          |
|       9 | Vanparvam Biodiversity Park,Thamarassery forest range, Kozhikode | Kerala      | 111.4          |
|      10 | Baner-Pashan Biodiversity Park Pune                              | Maharashtra | 200            |
|      11 | Sanjay Gandhi Biodiversity Park, Patna                           | Bihar       | 61.91          |
|      12 | Bio-diversity Heritage Site at Lungkulh, Mamit district          | Mizoram     |                |
|      13 | Tughlakabada (Tenkhand Phase-II)                                 | Delhi-NCR   | 81             |
|      14 | Bio-diversity Park, Hyderabad                                    | Telangana   | 5.26           |