TNN | Updated: Jan 17, 2019, 07:22 IST
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued notice to the state
government and the Centre over a PIL opposing a proposed tourism zone in
the Girnar wildlife sanctuary in the interest of wildlife in the area, especially the Asiatic lions.
An
NGO – Protection of Environment and Public Service Committee filed the
PIL and sought the HC directions to the government authorities not to go
ahead with the plan to create tourism zone in the sanctuary, for the
proposed zone falls in the core zone of the sanctuary. This is against
the provisions of existing wildlife protection laws and the guidelines
issued by the government itself.
The PIL has urged the HC to direct the
governments to create a national level conservation authority for lions
and to frame appropriate policy for long-term conservation of the
Asiatic lions. It wants a uniform policy for tourism in the Asiatic lion
landscape in accordance with the 2011 guidelines issued by the Ministry
of Environment and Forest. It wants prohibition on declaration of any
tourism zone within Girnar sanctuary.
The
PIL has demanded that a national policy should be declared for lion
conservation as has been successfully undertaken for tigers.
The petitioner claimed that the
178-sq-km Girnar sanctuary harbours 38 mammalian species, more than 300
species of birds and 37 species of herpetofauna. It is rich in
biodiversity and any effort to create tourism zone will disturb
wildlife.
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