Eco-development Programmes and Natural Resources Conservation

Biodiversity conservation in general is the basic objective for which the Eco-Development Programme is being used as a tool. The main aim and basic target of this scheme is to arrest further damage in the Ecosystem of the State.

The Eco-Development programme mainly focuses on the conservation of biodiversity, in-situ & ex-situ conservation of indigenous flora, landscaping, land development and Eco-tourism approaches with proper application of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) and scientific know-how with current national/international approaches by conducting detail study on threatened / endangered / extinct species of flora of the region.

Under this scheme the Directorate is taking up numerous programmes like setting up of Biodiversity Parks, Eco-Parks, landscaping/land development and tree plantation programme at School/Colleges and other important places of Manipur.