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ECO SENSITIVE ZONES & RULES RELATED TO IT IN INDIA

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Importance of Eco sensitive areas

The eco sensitive zones need to be declared in order to provide better sanctity to protected areas; as an
additional tool to strengthen the buffers and corridors around the Protected Area network; and to check the
negative impact of industrialization and unplanned development in and around Protected Areas.

Why recently in news

The Utter Pradesh cabinet approved eco-sensitive zones within 100 metres of Kaimur wildlife sanctuary,
Mirzapur; Okhla bird sanctuary, Gautam budh nagar; and, Lakh Bahosi wildlife sanctuary, Kannauj
UP has 24 wildlife sanctuaries and one national park.
What will happen if an area is declared as eco sensitive area/zone
The commercial mining will be banned within one kilometer of the three protected areas.
Activities in eco-sensitive areas
The activities in the eco-sensitive zones will be broadly divided into banned, regulated and permitted.
Environmental ministrys notification on eco-sensitive zone
The Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) had issued the guidelines for notification of ecosensitive zones around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries on February 9, 2011.
As per the rules, an eco-sensitive zone should be set up within 10 kms from protected areas.
However, states can change the norms according to the wildlife in the area, number of residents around it,
rural and urban location. UP adopted the altered norms.