Train Time Cards To Save Animals - Plan To Declare Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary As Eco-Sensitive Zone
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 7,
July 2011
The plan is part of the measures being initiated by the forest department under central guidelines to declare the wildlife sanctuary, which falls under Mariani range, as an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ). The department is consulting other departments and NGOs in chalking out the measures.
Gibbon will probably be the first sanctuary in the state to introduce time cards to locomotive drivers, once the plan is approved.
This sanctuary is the only one in the country to be named after hoolock gibbons, the only ape found in India. The animal is on the Red List of Threatened Species (vulnerable) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and in Schedule 1 of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Read the full report here.
Source: by Wasim Rahman, The Telegraph, Jorhat.
