Inviting colleges and universities to document biodiversity on their campuses
The Nature Conservation Foundation and the National Biodiversity Authority are encouraging colleges across India to document campus biodiversity using citizen science platforms. This initiative aims to create lasting records of flora and fauna while fostering student engagement in conservation efforts.
Why it matters
Citizen science projects help bridge the gap between academic institutions and environmental conservation, providing valuable data for global biodiversity databases.
The backyard of certain college campuses hardly resemble backyards as we usually understand them: a poky little space, lacklustre, hardly hoofed by human feet. In these colleges, the backyard is an expansive space, supporting an incredible population of furs and feathers; and they pull in human feet given to exploration and documentation of biodiversity.
Classic examples include IIT Madras in Guindy and Madras Christian College in Tambaram. There are also others such as Women’s Christian College in Nungambakkam and Stella Maris College in Gopalapuram that lend themselves to making of biodiversity checklists.
Against this green backdrop, Campus Biodiversity Register (CBS) is hugely relevant to Chennai. CBS invites colleges and universities to discover and document the biodiversity on their campuses and build a lasting record of it.
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