{"id":86673,"date":"2019-03-15T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2019-03-15T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:45:37","slug":"despite-objections-bannerghatta-national-parks-eco-sensitive-zone-curtailed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/despite-objections-bannerghatta-national-parks-eco-sensitive-zone-curtailed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite objections, Bannerghatta National Park\u2019s Eco-Sensitive Zone curtailed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The 33rd ESZ Expert Committee meeting of the\nMinistry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) has recommended to finalize the draft\nnotification which declared an Eco-sensitive Zone (ESZ) area of 168.84 sq.km around\nBannerghatta National Park. Environment activists have strongly opposed the\ndraft notification.<\/li><li>In 2016, the government had brought out a draft\nnotification which called for 268.96 sq. km of ESZ around Bannerghatta National\nPark. However, in 2018, the government issued another draft notification which\nreduced the area of ESZ to 169 sq. km. According to Supreme Court orders,\nunless site-specific ESZs are declared a 10-km area around each of these\nwildlife zones is treated as an ESZ.<\/li><li>Eco-sensitive zone is an area notified by the\nMinistry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), around Protected Areas,\nNational Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries. Notifications declaring areas as ESZ are\nissued under the Environment (Protection) Act 1986. The main aim behind ESZs\nare to regulate certain activities so as to minimise the negative impacts of\nsuch activities on the fragile ecosystem surrounding the protected areas.<\/li><li>The Bannerghatta National Park is located near\nBangalore city in Karnataka. It was declared as a national park in 1974. A part\nof the national park was designated as Bannerghatta Biological Park in 2002. The\nbiological park provides for ex-situ conservation of species. It also has a\nbutterfly park-the first in India.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 33rd ESZ Expert Committee meeting of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) has recommended to finalize the draft notification which declared an Eco-sensitive Zone (ESZ) area of 168.84 sq.km around Bannerghatta National Park. Environment activists have strongly opposed the draft notification. In 2016, the government had brought out a draft notification which called&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/despite-objections-bannerghatta-national-parks-eco-sensitive-zone-curtailed-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Despite objections, Bannerghatta National Park\u2019s Eco-Sensitive Zone curtailed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4247,4248],"class_list":["post-86673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bannerghatta-national-park","tag-ecosensitive-zone","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704671544},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}