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(i) Conservation of biological diversity;
(ii) Sustainable use of its components; and
(iii) Fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources.
♤ The Act envisages a three-tier structure to regulate access to the biological resources, comprising of National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), State Biodiversity Boards (SBB) and Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC) at the local level
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The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has recommended notification of the areas ‘above’ wildlife sanctuaries as a ‘silent zone’ by keeping the noise level of helicopters within the limit of 50 db. This is the recommendation in WII’s interim report with regard to height and noise level for flights over the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary
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25.5. THE SCHEDULED TRIBES AND OTHER TRADITIONAL FOREST DWELLERS (RECOGNITION OF FOREST RIGHTS) ACT, 2006
♤ Forest Rights Act, 2006 provides for the restitution of deprived forest rights across India, including both individual rights to cultivated land in forestland and community rights over common property resources.
The Act is significant as it provides scope and historic opportunity of integrating conservation and livelihood rights of the people.
The Union Finance Ministry has also slashed the Centre’s share of non-recurring expenditure from 100% to 60%, for Project Tiger, leaving the remaining amount for the respective states to manage. However, in the case of special status states, which includes the three Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir and Uttarakhand and the Northeastern states, the ratio is 90:10.