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10/01/21 11:30 AM IST

Denotification of the Shivalik Elephant Reserve

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Uttarakhand court approved the proposal put before it: to denotify the Shivalik Elephant Reserve to make way for the expansion of Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport.

Background
  • In 2002, the Centre notified the reserve under its Project Elephant, in order to protect the elephants in the area, their natural habitats and to reduce human-elephant conflict.
  • Earlier this year, the Uttarakhand State Wildlife Board had already cleared the use of around 87 ha of forest-land for the same airport expansion project.
Issue
  • The proposed bit of land falls in a sensitive zone of Shivalik Elephant Reserve, and is only some three kilometres from the crucial Kansaro-Barkot elephant corridor.
  • Citing provisions of the Biological Diversity Act 2002 and the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, the petitioner argued that “it was not open to the State Wildlife Board to denotify the Shivalik Elephant Reserve in such a summery manner without assessing the ecological catastrophe
  • that it can push the state and the entire region into”.
Source: Indian Express

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