Current Affairs - Miscellaneous - Discussion

The Scientist have discovered around 544 new species from India during 2019, the list of these new discoveries were releases as two books, Animal Discoveries 2019 and Plant Discoveries 2019 by the Zoological Survey of India(ZSI) and the Botanical Survey of India(BSI). The ZSI and BSI have been releasing these books since 2007 and 2019 list marks the 13th edition of this collection. On 9th October 2020, Babul Suriyo, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, launched these two bools at an event organised at the Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Backyard in Howrah, West Bengal.