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Stepping in to conserve the tiger, the India's Supreme Court recntly directed that there shall be no tourism in any of the core zones of tiger reserves pan.
A bench of Justices Mr. Swatanter Kumar & Mr. Ibrahim Kalifulla also warned of contempt proceedings and imposition of exemplary costs on States which failed to notify the buffer zones in their tiger reserves.
The bench said in its order, “We make it clear that till final directions are issued by Supreme court, the core zones or core areas in the tiger reserves will not be used for tourism” .
The Supreme court was also furious that many states despite its earlier directions of April 4 & July 10, 2012 had failed to notify the buffer zones in their reserves and warned that if they failed to comply within three weeks the defaulting states shall be saddled with a cost of Rs. 50,000 each, recoverable from the Principal Secretary, Forest, of the state concerned.
The court also imposed a cost of Rs.10,000 each on Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Maharashtra and Jharkhand for not complying with its directions. Sametime, the counsels for Arunachal Pradesh & Jharkhand said,''We were ready with the notification & would file affidavits during the course of the day".
The Supreme court was hearing a PIL ( # ) filed by conservationist Mr.Ajay Dubey demanding removal of commercial tourism activities from core or critical tiger habitats in the tiger reserves.
Src: PTI
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