Four foundational pillars guiding living biodiversity conservation, scientific characterisation, and community stewardship across Maharashtra.
Identify, catalog, and record indigenous landraces, traditional livestock breeds, and native flora and fauna across Maharashtra's marine, freshwater, grassland, and forest ecosystems through participatory community involvement.
Validate traditional ecological wisdom using modern scientific methodologies, including taxonomic verification, agronomic trials, DNA barcoding, microbiological assays, and reproductive genomics.
Disseminate validated germplasm data, restoration manuals, and indigenous varieties across academia, Gram Sabhas, and state policymaking bodies through open bioinformatics repositories and Gotul centres.
Propagate in situ living conservation by linking indigenous biodiversity to climate-resilient agriculture, tribal nutrition security, community water harvesting, and sustainable NTFP livelihood chains.
Rather than locking genetic resources into deep freezers isolated from evolutionary pressures, MGBP operationalizes living conservation. Farmers, pastoralists, and coastal fishing communities actively steward genetic varieties in production landscapes, while consortium institutions provide scientific validation and legal protection under PPV&FR.