(IN) Indian Govt reconstitutes tiger conservation body

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Govt reconstitutes tiger conservation body

PTI 21 September 2009, 02:57pm IST

 

NEW DELHI: The government has reconstituted the National Tiger Conservation

Authority (NTCA) with prominent wildlife activist and BJP MP Maneka

Gandhi as one of its members.

 

Headed by Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh who is the chairman, the

authority has eight experts with experience in wildlife conservation and the

welfare of people, including the indigenous tribes, besides two Members of

Parliament namely Rajya Sabha MP Santosh Bagrodia and Gandhi.

 

The wildlife experts are Brijendra Singh, Valmik Thapar, P K Sen, Prakash

Mulidhar Amte, Urmila Pingle, K Ullas Karanth, Samar Singh and Aparjita Dutta.

 

The Authority was constituted under the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act,

2006, as recommended by the Tiger Task Force at the initiation of Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh.

 

The authority was reconstituted early this month after it was first set up three

years ago.

 

The Authority deliberates on several issues relating to 38 tiger reserves spread

across 17 states covering anti-poaching, infrastructure, man-animal conflict and

co-existence in buffer and core areas.

 

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