The term biodiversity is a combination of two terms viz., ‘bio’ which means life and ‘diversity’ which means variety or richness. Biodiversity is the number and variety of species found within a specified geographic region. The term biological diversity was used first by wildlife scientist and conservationist Raymond F. Dasmann in 1968. The term’s contracted form ‘biodiversity’ was coined by W.G. Rosen in 1985. UNESCO designated 2011-2020 as the UN Decade on biodiversity. Before that, the year 2010 was celebrated by UN as International Year of Biodiversity. The slogan of the biodiversity year was “Biodiversity is life, Biodiversity is our life’. Various programmes on this regard were conducted all around the globe, which emphasized the need and importance of the participation of people from all walks of life, especially students all around the globe in the biodiversity conservation activities. Education, being the most powerful tool for social change is the precise weapon to fight against biodiversity depletion and degradation. This paper is an attempt to describe the various strategies to empower students for biodiversity conservation.