Tag: Wildlife Protection Act

If you have “special interest in wildlife” you could be a member of State Wildlife Board in Madhya Pradesh

Newsroom24x7 Network Bhopal: Successive governments in Madhya Pradesh have done it with impunity and in the latest instance it is the present Government headed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan that has flouted the statutory provision of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 (WPA) regarding the nomination of “eminent conservationists, ecologists and environmentalists” and appointed even persons taking… Read More If you have “special interest in wildlife” you could be a member of State Wildlife Board in Madhya Pradesh

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MP opening floodgates for private sector investment in forest areas

Lalit Shastri BHOPAL: Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Head of the Forest Department of Madhya Pradesh has grossly undermined the letter and spirit of the Forest Conservation Act, Forest Rights Act and Wildlife Protection Act and written to all Chief Conservators of Forest and the DFOs ordering them to identify degraded forest land falling… Read More MP opening floodgates for private sector investment in forest areas

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State Wildlife Board: Madhya Pradesh Government is in the dock and has a lot to answer

Newsroom24x7 network Bhopal: The reconstitued Madhya Pradesh State Wildlife Board, notified on 3 August 2019, is in the midst of a raging controversy at the very outset as there is no dearth of charges regarding flouting of mandatory requirements when it comes to the nomination of members to this high powered body under the Wildlife… Read More State Wildlife Board: Madhya Pradesh Government is in the dock and has a lot to answer

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