{"id":366896,"date":"2026-07-07T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=366896"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:06:47","slug":"designated-repository-under-biological-diversity-act-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/designated-repository-under-biological-diversity-act-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Designated Repository under Biological Diversity Act, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has designated the Natural History Museum (NHM), Mizoram University, Aizawl, as a Designated Repository under Section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>About Designated Repository under Biological Diversity Act, 2002<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mzu.edu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NHMM-G-scaled.jpg?resize=266%2C266&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Natural History Museum (NHM)\" width=\"266\" height=\"266\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Natural History Museum (NHM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has designated the Natural History Museum (NHM), Mizoram University, Aizawl, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a Designated Repository.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About Designated Repository (DR):<\/strong>\u00a0It is a<\/span><b> safe deposit of holotypes or isotypes or paratypes of new taxa discovered in India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>samples of biological resources accessed by foreign citizens or entities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for research or sent\/carried abroad by Indian citizens\/institutions for research.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Designated by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under <\/span><b>Section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-biodiversity-authority-nba\/\">National Biodiversity Authority (NBA)<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is authorized to <strong>designate institutions as repositories<\/strong> for biological resources, in consultation with the Central Government.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Total Designated Repositories: <\/strong>India has <strong>21 Designated Repositories<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>About Natural History Museum (NHM), Mizoram<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Establish year:<\/strong> It was <\/span><b>established in 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the <\/span><b>aegis of Mizoram University.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is uniquely positioned <\/span><b>because of its location within the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its <strong>specialized taxonomic expertise.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Importance of designation:<\/strong> The designation advances <\/span><b>National Biodiversity Target 4 of India\u2019s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (2024-2030)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by strengthening ex situ conservation and the conservation of genetic diversity<\/span><b>, in line with Target 4 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kunming-montreal-global-biodiversity-framework-gbf-and-protected-planet-report-2024\/\">Kunming\u2013Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has designated the Natural History Museum (NHM), Mizoram University, Aizawl, as a Designated Repository under Section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. About Designated Repository under Biological Diversity Act, 2002 The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has designated the Natural History Museum (NHM),&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/designated-repository-under-biological-diversity-act-2002\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Designated Repository under Biological Diversity Act, 2002<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-366896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}