Gudivada Sudarsanam

• Biodiversity Journal, 3 (2): 111-118.

  Shaik Khaleel Basha, Gudivada Sudarsanam, Dalazak Parveen & Ammnish Verma
  Conserving Biodiversity of Yerramalais of Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India, through People’s Biodiversity Registers Program

  ABSTRACT
  Ecological degradation and its corollary -biodiversity loss- pose a serious threat to development. The program of People’s Biodiversity Registers (PBR) is an attempt to promote folk ecological knowledge and wisdom. A program "PBR" for in-situ conservation of biological diversity involving local communities has been initiated in recent years. PBR helps in building an open and transparent information system on biodiversity resources from village level upwards. The register contains comprehensive information on availability and knowledge of local biological resources, their medicinal and other traditional knowledge associated with them. The main objective of this paper is to create awareness in villagers regarding how to preserve, protect biodiversity and equitably make use of TDK of medicinal plants. The process of preparation of PBRs, as well as the resultant documents, could serve a significant role in promoting more sustainable, flexible, participatory systems of management and in ensuring a better flow of benefits from economic use of the living resources to the local communities. Indigenous people (Sugalis) are playing an important role in conservation of TDK of Yerramalais. Knowledge about 38 different types of medicinal plants used by indigenous people for various diseases like leucoderma, snake bite, scorpion sting, jaundice, wounds, rheumatism are recorded.

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