Telangana State Biodiversity Board has celebrated International Day for Biological Diversity 2023 at Bhaskara Auditorium, B.M. Birla Center, Hyderabad.
The Hon’ble Chief Guest for the event was Dr. Rajat Kumar, IAS, Special Chief Secretary to Government of Telangana, Irrigation and Environment Science and Technology Department, Chairman, Telangana State Biodiversity Board.
The International Day for Biological Diversity is commemorating on 22nd May every year, to raise the awareness of biodiversity and deduce threats to biodiversity. The celebration theme for this year’s biodiversity day is “From Agreement to Action: Build Back Biodiversity”. The theme focuses on the adoption of the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.” in order to achieve the targets of the Framework and actions taken to implement them for the betterment of biodiversity and reducing threats to it.
For the celebration of The International Day for Biological Diversity, 23rd May this year also Telangana State Biodiversity Board has conducted various state level competitions via online mode for the school children’s, inter and college students and general public. The competitions conducted in several categories like, Essay writing, Photograph, Painting, Traditional dance, Cartoon designing, and elocution. Moreover to celebrate International Millet year, and increase importance of millets in our daily life for healthy living, a special competition was conducted through online mode, viz. Millets based dishes and recipes.
Around 1000 entries were received from the parts of the Telangana state as well as the country.
On this day we felicitated the best functional Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) of Telangana are also awarded, for their excellent performance in the Biodiversity conservation and management were given to Patancheru mandal.
