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Biodiversity encompasses the variety of all life on earth. India is one of the 12-mega biodiversity countries of the world. With only 2.5% of the land area, India already accounts for 7.8% of the recorded species of the world. India is equally rich in traditional and indigenous knowledge, both coded and informal... India is a Party of the Convention on Biological Diversity (1992). Recognizing the sovereign rights of States to use their own biological resources, the Convention expects the Parties to facilitate access to genetic resources by other Parties for environmentally sound purposes subject top national legislation and on mutually agreed upon terms (Article 3 and 15 of CBD). Article 8(j) of the Convention of Biological Diversity recognizes contributions of local and indigenous communities to the conservation and sustainable utilization of biological diversity through traditional knowledge, practices and innovations and provides for equitable sharing of benefits with such people..

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