Advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal, who filed the petition, told the bench that the decision of the Jim Corbett National Park was in violation of Wildlife Protection Act.
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SC stays Jim Corbett National Park order allowing private buses to ply within core area of Corbett Tiger Reserve ANI | Updated: Feb 18, 2021 17:59 IST
New Delhi [India], February 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed an order of Jim Corbett National Park allowing plying of private buses within the core area of the Corbett Tiger Reserve.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI), SA Bobde, issued notices to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Director Jim Corbett National Park, National Board for Wildlife, National Tiger Conservation Authority of Uttarakhand, state s Environment and Wildlife Department, and Chief Wildlife Warden of the state and sought their responses on the plea against the decision of Forest department.
The Supreme Court Thursday stayed an order of Jim Corbett National Park allowing buses of a private operator in the core area of the Tiger reserve in Uttarakhand.
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While 133 species of plants have been named as threatened in study reports, Schedule VI of the Wildlife Protection Act has named only six species for legal protection, said a public interest litigation petition filed before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday.
A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S. Ananthi ordered notice to the Centre and the State in the petition filed by K. Pushpavanam, who sought a direction to authorities to update and restructure the Schedules of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 in accordance with the reports.
He said the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Wildlife Institute of India had prepared the lists and the Biological Survey of India had also contributed to them. It was disheartening to know that when 133 species of plants were named as threatened, only six species had legal protection under the Wildlife Protection Act.
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