Policy and Advocacy

BNHS research has shaped national and state-level conservation policies through evidence-based recommendations on protected area management, biodiversity legislation, and species recovery programmes in partnership with government agencies and global conservation networks.

  • Submitted a report on India's progress towards conserving IBAs (part of National Biodiversity Target number 6) to the MoEFCC.

    BNHS policy and advocacy emblem

  • Contributed to the effective dismissal of the petition to revoke the ban on human formulation of multi-dose vials of diclofenac, a major cause for the sharp decline of Gyps Vultures in India. It may be recalled here that BNHS was part of the collaborative effort that brought in a ban on veterinary use of diclofenac in 2006.

    Vulture feeding its chick