Eco-Sensitive Zones and Landscape-level Conservation
Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZs) represent the buffer areas around protected regions, intended to regulate human activity while promoting ecological balance and sustainable development. Landscape-level conservation goes beyond individual protected areas, recognizing that ecosystems, wildlife corridors, and human settlements form interdependent landscapes. Together, ESZs and landscape approaches form the core of India’s contemporary conservation policy, integrating geography, governance, and local livelihoods into one sustainable framework.
Concept and Rationale of Eco-Sensitive Zones
- Declared under Section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, ESZs serve as transitional zones around National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries.
- Their main objective is to create a buffer between highly protected ....
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