{"id":191452,"date":"2022-05-23T00:58:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=191452"},"modified":"2022-05-23T00:58:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T19:28:58","slug":"international-biodiversity-day-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/international-biodiversity-day-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"International Biodiversity Day celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 22 May:<\/strong> Representatives of the Arunachal Pradesh Biodiversity Board (APBB) joined the national-level celebration of the International Biodiversity Day in Kalaivanar Arangam in Chennai on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">APBB Chairman Tayek Goi and its Member Secretary Koj Rinya, besides Shergaon-based Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) chairman Prem Norbu Thungon and other members of the BMC participated in the programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The awardees of the India Biodiversity Awards-2021 were also felicitated during the event. The Shergaon BMC was adjudged the best BMC, IBA-2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The APBB representatives also participated in a biodiversity exhibition on the theme &#8216;Biodiversity, nutritional security and human wellbeing&#8217;, in which the board showcased the rich medicinal plants diversity and the agri-diversity of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was attended by, among others, union EF&amp;CC Minister Bhupender Yadav, MoS for MoEF&amp;CC Ashwini Kumar Choubey, and Tamil Nadu Environment &amp; Forests Minister Thiru Siva V Meyyanathan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State biodiversity boards and union territory biodiversity councils, biodiversity management committee members from across the country, and representatives of the Indian Business and Biodiversity Initiative attended the celebration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Biodiversity Day is celebrated worldwide on 22 May to raise awareness on the importance of biological resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was organised by the union environment, forests &amp; climate change (MoEF&amp;CC) ministry and the National Biodiversity Authority, Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 22 May: Representatives of the Arunachal Pradesh Biodiversity Board (APBB) joined the national-level celebration of the International Biodiversity Day in Kalaivanar Arangam in Chennai on Sunday. APBB Chairman Tayek Goi and its Member Secretary Koj Rinya, besides Shergaon-based Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) chairman Prem Norbu Thungon and other members of the BMC participated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-191452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}