Biodiversity and Sustainable Development in North East India

For thousands of years biodiversity has been an integral part of our culture. . Our ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity has been greatly influenced by the unique features of our land, climate and geography, as well as the forces of migration and evolution. North-East India has its own development of a vernacular architecture that has evolved through the ages and is sensitive to its local climate, inhabitants, and materials as the environment has been an integral part of their lifestyles. Sustainability and its development have always remained an issue of utmost importance. As human beings, we are an integral part of such biodiversity. This biodiversity provides us a unique cultural shape and specific customs, rituals, ceremonies, food habits, clothing habits, all are dependent on biodiversity. There have been various challenges to sustain the bio-diversity such as land tenure system, smuggling, inter-state disputes etc. To overcome all these disputes various initiatives have been through regulatory provision and guidelines.