- Reconstituting of National Board of Wildlife has not got a positive response from NGO’s and several individuals since it has only two non-official members in place of 10 and one quasi-government organisation in place of five independent NGO’s
- Environmental Minister Prakash Javedkar has written a letter to the PM expressing concern over the new NBWL notification
- NBWL committee was not there for more than 10 months and the government had not constituted a proper Board honouring the letter and spirit of the Wildlife Protection Act and the need to protect wildlife and biodiversity in protected areas, the letter said
- In the Environmental website the notification is not available and is in violation of the Wildlife Protection Act in letter and spirit and is not in the interest of the wildlife, biodiversity or protected areas in the country, the activists have said
- As per the wildlife protection act five persons should represent NGO’s but the new board has only one member from the Gujarat Ecological Education and Research Foundation at Gandhinagar, which are a Gujarat government organisation and not an NGO
- According to the website it says “set up in 1982 by the Forests and Environment Department, government of Gujarat” and the Chairperson of its board is the Chief Minister of Gujarat while a majority of the board members too are from the State government
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/ngos-protest-wildlife-board-reconstitution/article6285337.ece