14/10/2020
Do You Know Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS)?
Under Section-37 of Biological Diversity Act, 2002 the State Government in consultation with local bodies may notify areas of biodiversity importance as Biodiversity Heritage Sites (BHS).
The ‘Biodiversity Heritage Sites’ (BHS) are unique ecosystems having rich biodiversity comprising of any one or more of the following components:
1.Richness of wild as well as domesticated species or intra-specific categories.
2.High endemism.
3.Presence of rare and threatened species, keystone species, species of evolutionary significance.
4.Wild ancestors of domestic/cultivated species or their varieties.
5.Past pre-eminence of biological components represented by fossil beds and having significant cultural, ethical or aesthetic values and are important for the maintenance of cultural diversity, with or without a long history of human association with them.
Madhya Pradesh has two notified ‘Biodiversity Heritage Sites’ (BHS):
1. Naro Hills- Satna
Area- 200 Hect.
Importance of the area- Unique and varied geology and it supports a large number of ecosystem and species of Flora and Fauna.
2. Patalkot- Chhindwara
Area- 8367.49 Hect.
Importance of the area- Terrain of 1700 feet deep valley and ecosystem of estimated age of 6 Million years and species of rare flora and fauna including rare Bryophytes and Pteridopytes
