THE STORY OF PRIVATE FOREST IN GOA - PART 2_Prudent Media Goa

Описание: Part two reveals the details of what happened after Sawant and Karapurkar committee report identified 67.12 sq.km area as a private forest.

On the direction of the High Court of Bombay at Goa, the Forest Department demarcated 41.20 sq.km area out of a total of 67.12 sq.km private forest area identified by Sawant and Karapurkar Committee.

NGO Goa Foundation challenged that demarcation by the Forest Department before the High Court.

Later, the High Court transferred the matter to the National Green Tribunal, Western Zone.
The NGT in by an order dated 07/01/2016 directed the Goa government to constitute a review committee. Goa government on 23/04/2018 constituted the review committee headed by then Deputy Conservator of Forest Deep Shikha Sharma, IFS.

The review Committee classified land with a 10-40% canopy area as Open Forest, 40-70% as Medium dense forest and 70-100% canopy area as a very dense forest. Then the Review Committee adopted the 2 criteria 1) canopy density and 2) species composition criteria.

Finally, the review Committee added 4.91 sq. km forest area in 41.20 sq.km demarcated by the forest department.

Forest Department and Review Committee ignored the remaining 21 sq.km area as it was having forest canopy density less than 40%. But, Goa Foundation, in 2015, moved the Supreme Court and obtained an interim injunction against conversion of any green or wooded area in Goa with a canopy density of 10% and above, having area of 1 hectare and above forest land area. That stay is continuing till date.





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