New Delhi: The environment ministry has come out with new guidelines to create eco-sensitive zones (ESZs) around the protected areas to prevent ecological damages caused due to developmental activities around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.
The new ESZ guidelines, declared by the ministry on February 9, would also ensure that these areas act as "shock absorbers" to the protected areas by regulating and managing the activities around such areas. The guidelines were updated on the ministry website today.
"It is prerequisite that an inventory of different land-use patterns and the different types of activities, types and number of industries operating around each of the protected areas be made," the ministry said.
For this purpose, the ministry has asked all states to constitute a committee comprising the wildlife warden, an ecologist and a revenue department official of the area concerned to suggest the requirement of an eco-sensitive zone and its extent.
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