Hyderabad will get its own Rs 100 crore bio-diversity museum. The foundation stone will be laid during the international biodiversity meet, Conference of Parties 11 (COP 11) scheduled to be held in Hyderabad this October. This was announced by R Humpaiah, chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Biodiversity Board, on Thursday.

He said that the state board would also develop a biodiversity park alongside the museum on a sprawling 15-acre land on the Gachibowli-Mehdipatnam road.

"We have already taken possession of this land and work will begin after the meet. While the museum is being built by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), we have been sanctioned about Rs 5 crore to develop the park," Humpaiah said, while speaking to the media.

Speaking about the October summit, he said that it was expected to draw as many as 18,000 delegates from across the globe. This would include forest ministers, heads of states, NGOs and other international bodies such as World Bank, World Wildlife Fund and International Union for Conservation of Nature among others as per a report in TOI.