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Make elephant corridors eco-sensitive zones, says NGT
News:
- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to consider declaring all elephant corridors in the country as eco-sensitive zones.
Important Facts:
- The observations following a plea that sought legal recognition to the elephant reserves and corridors in the state of Assam.
- NGT has given two weeks time to the Ministry to look into the issue and to proceed in the matter for declaration of such areas as eco sensitive zones.
- Background: The plea highlighted the increasing number of unnatural elephant deaths taking place in the state.
- The petition further said that owing to the increased denudation and loss of their forest habitats, elephants have come increasingly into conflicts with humans and faced deliberate retaliatory killings and accidents at railway crossings, high tension power lines, power fences and trenches.
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