India has published guidelines for recognising conservation that happens outside its national parks and sanctuaries, a category the global goal to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030 counts alongside formal protected areas.
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The world’s first progress report on its 2030 promise to halt and reverse the loss of nature finds that fewer than half of the national targets assessed so far are on track.
Seed companies that profit from India’s crop varieties have paid ₹2.02 crore towards protecting the biodiversity those varieties came from, and the money is now reaching state-level bodies that can spend it on conservation in local communities.