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India’s environment ministry has come out with a set of rules which facilitates any industrial project that starts in an ecologically sensitive coastal zone without required permissions, to compensate by paying for a conservation and environmental management plan, and avoid the risk of closure.
On February 19, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change sent an “office memorandum” to all coastal states detailing the procedure for dealing with violations by industries starting projects without obtaining a valid Coastal Regulation Zone clearance.
The ministry’s order held that for “protecting and improving the quality of the coastal environment and abating the coastal environmental pollution, it is necessary that all entities not complying with Coastal Regulation Zone notification be brought under compliance of the environmental statutes in an expedient manner”.
First such enumeration stresses that local communities are the strongest allies in conservation
Himachal Pradesh’s high-altitude hilly terrains could be harbouring as many as 73 snow leopards (
Panthera uncia), says a recent study based on a scientific enumeration of the elusive animal. Snow leopards are one of the most endangered wildlife species. The study observed that local communities are the strongest allies in conservation.
The first-ever such study on snow leopards, a top predator of the Indian Himalaya, was completed in January by the Himachal Pradesh Wildlife Department and the Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF).
“We are the pioneers in getting snow leopards count done in a scientific manner in the country. Till now, it was only a guess work surrounding the population of snow leopards. But now we have numbers which are reliable. We detected 44 individual snow leopards at 187 occasions in this study. From this dataset of 44 individuals, we estimated th
First such enumeration stresses that local communities are the strongest allies in conservation
Himachal Pradesh’s high-altitude hilly terrains could be harbouring as many as 73 snow leopards (
Panthera uncia), says a recent study based on a scientific enumeration of the elusive animal. Snow leopards are one of the most endangered wildlife species. The study observed that local communities are the strongest allies in conservation.
The first-ever such study on snow leopards, a top predator of the Indian Himalaya, was completed in January by the Himachal Pradesh Wildlife Department and the Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF).
“We are the pioneers in getting snow leopards count done in a scientific manner in the country. Till now, it was only a guess work surrounding the population of snow leopards. But now we have numbers which are reliable. We detected 44 individual snow leopards at 187 occasions in this study. From this dataset of 44 individuals, we estimated th
Densely populated areas excluded from revised Thattekad ESZ
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Proposal incorporating Central committee’s suggestions to be submitted next week
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Proposal incorporating Central committee’s suggestions to be submitted next week
The revised Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of Thattekad Bird Sanctuary by excluding the densely populated areas and incorporating the suggestions mooted by the Central authorities will be submitted next week.
The managers of the sanctuary had to go for the revised plan after the expert committee appointed by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change for the declaration of ESZ around protected areas suggesting modification to the proposal.
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