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♤ Biosphere Reserve (BR) is an international designation by UNESCO for representative parts of natural and cultural landscapes extending over large area of terrestrial or coastal/marine ecosystems or a combination thereof.
♤ BRs are special environments for both people and the nature and are living examples of how human beings and nature can co-exist while respecting each others’ needs.
♤ Biosphere reserves are sites established by countries and recognized under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme to promote sustainable development based on local community efforts and sound science.
♤ As places that seek to reconcile conservation of biological and cultural diversity and economic and social development through partnerships between people and nature, they are ideal to test and demonstrate innovative approaches to sustainable development from local to international scales.
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♤ The forests in the country have been classified into 16 major types and 251 subtypes on the basis of climatic and edaphic features.
♤ Slender loris (primate) found only in the tropical rainforests of Southern India and Sri Lanka.
♤ The Indian star tortoise found in scrub forests of India and Sri Lanka