Further directions has been sought to the Respondents to formulate and place on record strategy/scheme to prevent the Western Ghats and to file its report before the NGT.
The petitioner submitted that due to such arbitrary processes, the highest statutory authority in the country for wildlife conservation has been reduced to a clearance granting body, and the entire National Board for Wildlife has been diluted and subverted.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, wanting the entire animal kingdom, including avian and aquatic species, to be declared as “legal entities” having distinct persona and corresponding rights of a living person.