Bhutan ratified the International Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD) in 1995 by the 73rd session of the National
Assembly. Consequent to the ratification of the convention, Bhutan
developed the first Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) of Bhutan in
1998 - a guiding policy document for conservation and sustainable
utilization of biological resources of the country. Concurrently,
the National Biodiversity Centre was instituted in 1998 as a
non-departmental agency under the Ministry of Agriculture with the
mandate to coordinate biodiversity conservation and sustainable
utilization programs in the country, and the implementation of
Biodiversity Action Plan (s).
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