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Invasive alien species
Species that spread where they were brought and crowd out what was there, plant and animal, on land and in water, and the plans, conventions and clearing drives against them. Prelims has asked why Prosopis juliflora is in the news and which body develops the Global Invasive Species Database.
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2023: the body behind the Global Invasive Species Database
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National Management Plan of Invasive Species
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India has never had a single national plan for invasive species, and the inventory such a plan would have to be built on has now been handed over.
- The Botanical Survey of India (BSI) gave the National Biodiversity Authority a State wise inventory of potential invasive species.
- That inventory will feed a National Management Plan of Invasive Species.
- The Forest Survey of India (FSI) has separately prepared an album of 45 major invasive plant species.
- The National Working Plan Code, 2023 provides for managing invasive species and for using native species in restoration.