Author: Sas. Biswas

Dr. Sas. Biswas has over three decades of experience in systematic and biodiversity studies in India and along the biodiversity rich tracts of Indo-Tibet, Indo-Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sino-Himalayan borders covering various aspects of floristic inventory and conservation. He has contributed immensely on the plant taxonomic, floristic and biodiversity management aspects of indigenous traditional knowledge and grassroots innovation of principal tribal communities of the country. Author began his career as a research scholar in forest science in the year 1973. Presently he is a scientist in Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun (India). He has 150 publications on different aspects of biological diversity to his credit. Dr Biswas is a teacher with nearlky three decades of experience in forest botany and biological diversity, and one could find his students as biodiversity and genetic resource managers and researchers in this country and abroad. Dr. Biswas widely travelled globally for the cause of biodiversity. Some of his significant visits in context to the subject are as FAO Fellow in Germany, Working Group Mwember for Asia Pacific and Oceanic region on Bamboo and Rattan Biodiversity Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Malaysia; South Africa, Chile, China, Argentina etc.