Health & Environment
Kerala State Biodiversity Board Launches Ecosystem Red List Assessment
The Hindu1h
THE BRIEF
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The Kerala State Biodiversity Board initiated India's first Red List Assessment of Ecosystems project to shift conservation focus from individual species to landscape-wide management.
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Researchers from the Kerala Forest Research Institute and MES Asmabi College are executing the one-year study to evaluate collapse risks across the state's 14 districts.
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The project will generate an official Risk Register, an Ecosystem Typology Atlas, and ecorestoration priority maps to guide climate adaptation and local planning.