The People’s Biodiversity Register is a document of people’s knowledge of biodiversity, intended to protect people’s rights to their intellectual property and natural resources.

Its objective is to build an open and transparent information system on biodiversity resource from village level upwards. The register can be used to promote the sustainable management of biodiversity resources. Moreover, claims of communities and individuals to knowledge about biodiversity resources and their uses can be supported.

PBR Documented

A total number of 4689 PBRs have been documented at different local body level in Jharkhand. The details are as given below :-

Level of local bodyTargetPBRs documentedRemaining
Gram Panchayat Level43514351NIL
Block Panchayat Level263263NIL
Zila Panchayat Level2424NIL
Urban body Level5151NIL
Total :-468946890