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Calicut University garden named heritage site
Kerala designates the Calicut University Biodiversity Garden as a protected heritage site under national biodiversity law.
In brief
Kerala designates the Calicut University Biodiversity Garden as a protected heritage site under national biodiversity law. Kerala has notified Calicut University's Biodiversity Garden at Tenhipalam as a heritage site under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. Originally reported by The Hindu.
Kerala protects university garden
The State government has notified the Calicut University Biodiversity Garden at Tenhipalam in Malappuram district as a Biodiversity Heritage Site.
Decision made under biodiversity law
The gazette notification was issued on October thirty-first in consultation with the Kerala State Biodiversity Board, under Section thirty-seven of the Biological Diversity Act, two thousand two.
Garden opened in nineteen seventy-two
The garden was inaugurated in nineteen seventy-two by R.E. Holttum, then Director of Singapore Botanical Garden, and features tropical India flora and exotic species.
The headline
Kerala has notified Calicut University's Biodiversity Garden at Tenhipalam as a heritage site under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.
