Biodiversity Management Committees and Biodiversity Heritage Sites are provided for by which law?

The correct answer is A, the Biological Diversity Act of 2002, the Indian law passed to carry out the Convention on Biological Diversity. It builds a three tier system: the National Biodiversity Authority at the centre, State Biodiversity Boards, and a Biodiversity Management Committee in every local body, which keeps a People Biodiversity Register of the plants, animals and traditional uses of its area. Section 37 of the same Act lets a state government declare an area of special biodiversity value a Biodiversity Heritage Site.

Option B is wrong because the wildlife law deals with protected areas and species schedules. Option C is wrong because the Forest Rights Act recognises the rights of forest dwellers, including community forest resource rights, but creates no biodiversity committees. Option D is wrong because the 2010 Act only set up the environmental tribunal.