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The Great Banyan Tree at the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Shibpur.. Botanical Survey of India (BSI) located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.It was founded on 13 February 1890, is Government of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change's organization for survey, research and conservation of plant wealth of India, flora and endangered species of India ...
The Survey of India, headquartered at Dehradun, Uttarakhand, has 18 geospatial divisions ranging from the prediction of tides to aerial survey. It has 23 Geo-spatial Data Centers spread across India, each catering to the respective administrative area. Surveyors are the backbone of Survey of India.
Forest Research Institute campus, Dehradun, India. The Forest Research Institute (abbr. FRI; Hindi: वन अनुसन्धान संस्थान) is a Natural Resource Service training institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is an institution in the field of forestry research in India for Indian Forest Service cadres and all State Forest Service cadres.
Headquartered in Dehradun, its functions are to conduct forestry research; transfer the technologies developed to the states of India and other user agencies; and to impart forestry education. The council has 9 research institutes and 4 advanced centres to cater to the research needs of different bio-geographical regions.
A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research and education.This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with beautiful flowers, are grown for public amenity Botanical gardens that specialize in trees are sometimes referred to as arboreta.
Saharanpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also the administrative headquarters of Saharanpur district. Saharanpur city's name was given after the Saint Shah Haroon Chishti. [2] Saharanpur is declared as one amongst the 100 Smart Cities by MOUD as a part of Smart Cities Mission of the Government of India.
Directorate of Forest Education, Dehradun; Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata; National Institute of Animal Welfare, Faridabad; National Zoological Park, New Delhi; National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi; Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata; Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) Authorities. Central Zoo Authority of India, New Delhi
India is also home to four biodiversity hotspots—Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Eastern Himalaya, Indo-Burma region, and the Western Ghats. [3] Hence the importance of biogeographical study of India's natural heritage. The first initiative to classify the forests of India was done by Champion in 1936 and revised by Seth in 1968. [4]