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Background
Overview
PBRs are crucial for decentralized biodiversity governance, documenting traditional knowledge, and implementing the Biological Diversity Act, which is a core topic in Environment & Ecology. They link local communities with national conservation efforts and address issues of access and benefit sharing.
People's Biodiversity Registers (PBRs) are official documents prepared by local self-governing bodies (Panchayats and Municipalities) under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, to record the biological resources and associated traditional knowledge within their jurisdiction.