Welcome to the India Biodiversity Portal. A unique repository of information on India's biodiversity. It is designed to harness collective knowledge, seek voluntary participation of users and establish a participative system of content generation, verification and usage. The Portal aims to facilitate and enable widespread participation by all citizens in contributing and accessing information on Indian biodiversity, that benefits science and society, contributes to sustainable future; and guide the development and use of this Portal. Your participation is vital. We welcome your feedback. More ...

Map List

Right now, we have about a hundred maps of various aspects of biodiversity. This list is rapidly growing.

• Click here for the full list of maps currently available.
• If you have a map to contribute, mail support at indiabiodiversity dot org or fill in the feedback form.

A central principle of the India Biodiversity portal is to create structures to facilitate large scale participation of individuals and institutions. We will reach out to researchers, amateurs, naturalists, students, institutions and the public to facilitate and enable their participation. The success and sustainability of the portal will depend upon the extent and strength of large-scale participation.

You can participate by providing complete layers that will be deployed on the portal. These layers will be deployed with complete attribution to the data provider. All data will be deployed on the commons license and will be freely viewable by everybody. However, the data provider can decide on the any category of commons license under which the layer data is deployed. For details on licensing refer to the forums or on feedback form and we will respect your contribution and get back to you.

To contribute to a layer, follow the steps detailed below:

• You should be a authenticated in user to contribute to the site. Register on the site and login using your username and password.
• If you are a logged in user, you will see an "Add Feature" icon on the tool bar of the map page.
• Click on the "Add Feature" icon
• This will show a dialog with a drop-down list of layers on which you have permissions to add a feature
• Select a layer in which you would like to add or edit a feature
• The selected layer will be displayed on the map; an icon with a point or polygon feature will appear on the map; and a pop-up details the steps to add a feature to the layer.
• Zoom to the area of interest.
• To a new feature and annotate it follow the steps detailed below:
• Select the add point / polygon / line tool.
• Add a feature, fill the pop-up form and submit.
• To annotate an existing feature follow the steps detailed below:
• Zoom into the feature you want to annotate and click on the feature
• In the pop-up, click on "Click for Details"
• In the appropriate table, click on the "Add" link, fill the pop-up form and submit
• The added feature will be visible when the layer is reloaded

We currently have six participatory layers. These are shown in a separate tab on the layer picker dialog. Some of the participatory layers are for restricted participation. If you would like to add features to these layers you must be a layer member and be allocated required privileges. Please send a mail to request membership in these layers through forums or on feedback form There are two ways in which to can contribute to any of these layers. You could add a new feature and annotate it, or annotate and add details to an existing feature. If you encounter any problems or issues, please send a mail to support at indiabiodiversity dot org or report on the feedback form. Thanks for your participation

The IBP team presented a paper on IBP and the platform it was built on at Geomatrix '09. The paper was well received, by all accounts, and as a nice little bonus, we bagged the Best Poster Award!

Read the whole story, with links to the paper and the poster

The platform is on version 0.4 released on 23rd April 2009. For a list of changes, please refer to the release notes.

ATREE announces grants that could be used for biodiversity conservation in the Western Ghats. These ciuld be used to create maps for the India Biodiversity Portal. Note that the grant evaluation is completely independent, and this is only for information. For details look at the call for proposals and the small grants program

The India Biodiversity Portal is promoted by the The National Knowledge Commission. Other Portals under this initiative are.

India Environment Portal

India Water Portal

Teachers of India

India Energy Portal