# Webinar: Restoration through Biodiversity Management Committees

**URL:** https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/webinar-restoration-through-biodiversity-management-committees/4719
**Category:** Ecological Restoration & Rewilding
**Created:** [March 17, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/webinar-restoration-through-biodiversity-management-committees/4719 "2026-03-17T12:31:27Z")
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#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://grove.rainmatter.org/t/webinar-restoration-through-biodiversity-management-committees/4719/1 "2026-03-17T12:31:27Z")

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The Ecological Restoration Alliance invites you to its next webinar: **Achieving Restoration via Biodiversity Management**  **Committees.** Here, ERA community member Shyamkumar P will present a model of ecological restoration executed via a panchayat Biodiversity Management Committee in Kerala.

You can register on [this link](https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fSKexj7RQPevwuXh6QIN9g#/registration), or by scanning the QR code on the poster below.

**Date:** March 25, 2026  
**Time:** 4 pm onwards  
**Venue:** Zoom Meeting

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**About the Talk:**

With resource scarcity and competition often impeding restoration projects, what alternatives lie beyond private-sector funded restoration models? Do India’s Biological Diversity Act and its Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) offer us a clue? Can these enable existing government machinery and ordinary citizens to come together to restore degraded ecosystems?

In this talk, naturalist Shyamkumar P will narrate how he utilised the Pullur Periya BMC to restore a section of the Chithari river in Kasargod, Kerala, with funds from the State’s Biodiversity Board. Shyamkumar will also highlight the structure and workings of a BMC and underscore why Kerala has been so successful in supporting and governing these committees.

**About the Speaker:**

Shyamkumar P is an architect and a naturalist. He is a part of the Biodiversity Management Committee of the Kasaragod District Panchayat in Kerala, and the convener of the Pullur Periya BMC.

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See you on the call.