AP State Biodiversity Board

05/06/2026

The AP State Biodiversity Board conducted the World Environment Day - 2026 at several places in the state.

05/06/2026

The Andhra Pradesh State Biodiversity Board (APSBB) held its Board meeting today on 03.06.2026 at the Fortune Murali Hotel, chaired by Chairman Neelayapalem Vijay Kumar and Member Secretary P. Ramakrishna.
Senior officials who are Board Members from key stakeholder departments—including Environment, Municipal, Forest, Agriculture, Panchayat Raj, Tribal Welfare, and Animal Husbandry—convened to finalize a comprehensive strategic action plan for the coming months.
The Biodiversity Board approved a strategic action plan focusing on infrastructure, conservation, and community engagement, highlighted by the upcoming inauguration of the Kadapa Bio-Diversity Park.
Key initiatives include developing new parks in Mangalagiri and Tirupati, implementing ‘Micro-Forests’ at urban junctions, and initiating statewide OECM conservation measures.
The Board also reported a 200% increase in Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) funds, paving the way for expanded compliance efforts and mandal-level training for Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs).

25/05/2026

Andhra Pradesh State Biodiversity Board, Amaravati conducted the Celebrations of International Day for Biological Diversity – 2026 at Acharya Nagarjuna University Auditorium (Prof V. Balamohandas Seminar Hall) Guntur on 22nd May, 2026.

30/04/2026

AP Bio Diversity Board has conducted a Conference in Vijayawada yesterday on the Transfer of a Fair Equity to Fishermen from the sale of Marine Resource as per the 2023 BD Act passed by Parliament Act.
According to this act GOI implements the ABS policy Access and Benefit Sharing) to reward the Community.

The ABS which was mostly confined to Land resources is now being proposed to be expanded into the Marine Sector and the similar terrestrial ABS benefits are to be obtained by Marine Fishermen too

28/04/2026

AP Biodiversity board is conducting a Workshop tomorrow on “Access Benefit Resources in marine Sector”.
The leadership from National Bio Diversity Authority including Veerendar Tiwari, IFS; B Balaji IFS, B Rajasekhar, IAS, Kantilal Dande, IAS, Krishnaiah, IAS(Retd), Dr. Chalapathi Rao IFS, Ram Shankar Naik (IAS), and Member Secretaries of Bio Diversity Boards from Orissa, TN, KN, KL and Professors from AU, YVU, SU, SVU and officials from CMFRI, MPEDA, Fisheries Department, plus Anam Venkata Ramana Reddy, the Vice Chairman etc are participating .
A Press meet is scheduled for the evening to provide the outcomes of the day long workshop

27/03/2026

Participated as a Key Note Speaker on behalf of AP BioDiversity Board in — “Sahaja Jeevan Vidhanam: Mainstreaming LiFE for a Regenerative Future in Andhra Pradesh” Summit in Vijayawada, Hyatt Hotel.

This summit was organised by CMS Vatavaran and Habitat Trust in association with Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, IUCN, UNEP, in collaboration with APSBB, APPCB and others

The two day summit - Andhra LiFE for Nature - acts as a platform to bring together diverse voices to reflect on how Andhra Pradesh can move forward on a development pathway that is both economically progressive and ecologically responsible.

01/10/2025

The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), has sanctioned a first instalment amount of ₹82 lakh to the Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Board for the conservation of Red Sanders, according to the environment ministry.
This is only a part of the rechanellising of funds obtained from the ABS component of auctioning of Red Sanders at international level and seceral projects are in pipe line.
The funds are aimed at raising one lakh saplings of Red Sanders, which will subsequently be supplied to farmers, thereby contributing to the Trees Outside Forests (ToF) programme, and thus marking a significant step towards conserving a species unique to the region, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has said.

The funds are aimed at raising one lakh saplings of Red Sanders, which will subsequently be supplied to farmers

10/09/2025

APSBB had its Board Meeting today in DV Manor Hotel, Vijaywada, conducted on a hybrid mode.
The Board presently comprises of Seven, Ex Officio Members, HODs of related departments, drafted by GoAP; The non official members to the Board, are yet to be given by the government. While some came physically, a few attended online.
The board discussed the action taken reports of last two years and approved the action plan to go forward, with sime suggestions.
Since the Board’s go ahead was received to most of our proposals, we can start working with renewed vigour.

08/09/2025

AP Bio Diversity Board, (APSBB) as per the Act of Parliament, collects a small percentage fee of 0.5% from “Bio Resources Procurement Companies, Traders, Manufacturers and Exporters” as ‘Access Benefit Sharing Fee” (ABS)
As Marine Fisheries also comes under Bio Resources and since a few coastal States initiated the collection of ABS; the Andhra Pradesh Bio Diversity Board has also has come up with collection of ABS to conserve the ‘ Endangered and Vulnerable’ species and also to help the fishing community.
As a first step, a Research report in terms of data collection; availability of fish resources; state of affairs etc was completed through CMFRI - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute.
The Hindu covers the research issue in detail
Regards

09/06/2025

Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Board - World Oceans Day-2025.