Kolkata Becomes First Metro City to Get Its Biodiversity Register.

May 27, 2022

During the UN International Biodiversity Day (22 May), Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) released the
People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR) for the city, the first-of-its-kind report of any Indian metro.
The Biodiversity Register is prepared by the Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) of the civic body under the supervision of the state biodiversity board and with help from NGOs.
Kolkata is the first major metro to prepare the PBR.
Chandigarh and Indore are other important cities which have prepared the document.