Vision

Cutting edge research with strategic and comprehensive knowledge on bioresources and ecosystems of high altitude Himalaya

Mission

Assessing, monitoring and conserving Himalayan bioresources vis-a-vis understanding plant strategies and functions for its sustainable utilization

Activities

• Survey and inventorization of plant resources
• Geospatial mapping of plant bioresources
• Functional ecology and trait analysis
• Long term ecological research monitoring
• Documentation of plant associated traditional knowledge
• Introduction, domestication and development of agrotechniques economically for important plant resources
• Ex-situ conservation of rare, threatened and endangered plant species
• Generating quality planting material
• Modeling species and ecosystem vulnerability to changing climatic conditions
• Databases development of plant bioresources
• Providing services for bioresource management
• Awareness, outreach and capacity building