समाचार में क्यों
- The Supreme Court ruled that no State government can construct physical blockades along inter-state traditional elephant pathways.
मुख्य शब्द
Elephant Corridor
A narrow strip of habitat that connects larger habitats of elephants, facilitating their seasonal movement.
Landscape-level Conservation
An environmental management approach that considers entire ecosystems and species movement across administrative boundaries.
Key points
- A three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India held that wildlife corridors are inherently multi-state pathways driven by natural animal instinct.
- The court observed that erecting physical barriers or fences increases human-wildlife conflict rather than mitigating it.
- The apex court directed the Union Government to conduct a comprehensive nationwide survey of traditional elephant corridors.
- The decision reinforces the ecological doctrine of landscape-level wildlife protection under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
प्रीलिम्स तथ्य
- Asian elephants are listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List and under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
- Project Elephant was launched in 1992 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to protect wild elephants and their corridors.
मेंस चर्चा
- Examine the challenges of balancing linear infrastructure development with the preservation of contiguous ecological corridors in India.
स्रोत: The Hindu
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