The Supreme Court’s interim order, which temporarily banned tourism in core areas of tiger reserves, has forced the state to get its act together.
An expert committee formed by the state forest department barely two days after the SC ruling came into effect on July 24, will meet in Nagpur on Thursday, to take a call on the boundary of buffer area of the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve.
Once decided, Maharashtra will be the first state to list buffer areas of all its tiger reserves. This has been the key issue of contention in the SC case.
Confirming that all formalities are over, principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) and chief wildlife warden of Maharashtra, SWH Naqvi, told DNA on Tuesday, “We are meeting on August 9 for taking a final decision on demarcating boundary of the buffer area in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve.”
Optimistic about the meeting, conservationist Kishore Rither, member of the buffer areas committee, said, “The field director of Sahyadri Tiger Reserve will give a presentation on the buffer areas to the committee and I expect that a decision will be arrived at.”
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