The train, Science Express—Biodiversity Special (SEBS), is being jointly run by the Department of Science and Technology and Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Flagged off on June 5, 2012, on the World Environment Day from Delhi Safdarjung, the train had already registered 12 lakh visitors as it chugs along the length and breadth of the country.
The train would help showcase India’s rich biodiversity to thousands of school children and also to hundreds of delegates to the convention from over 180 countries.
The 16-coach train would give a bird’s eye view of bio-geographical zones of India, including trans-Himalaya, the Himalayas, the Gangetic plain, the North-east and Coastal areas.
It would also cover myriad facets of marine, forest, microbial, agro biodiversity and their linkage with livelihoods, besides challenges of conservation.
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