Title
Going Nowhere? Roads and Conservation in India
Author(s)
Krishnadas, M.;Sridhara, S.
Published
2016
Publisher
Conservation India
Abstract
The ongoing controversy about widening National Highway 7 (NH7) has highlighted the inevitable trade-offs in conservation and development. Conservation groups and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have been at logger-heads. The former contend that widening the parts of NH7 that pass through Kanha and Pench Tiger Reserves will further fragment an important wildlife refuge and corridor. NHAI opposed the high costs of wildlife-friendly mitigation measures, and agreed to build underpasses and overlays only after the Supreme Court’s intervention. Nonetheless, they took exception to the intransigent stance of conservationists regarding a patch of forest when a vital national infrastructure needed improvement.
Keywords
Compensatory Afforestation and Management Planning Authority (CAMPA);Environment impact assessment (EIA);Habitat destruction;Habitat fragmentation;Highways / Roads;Linear intrusions;Protected areas;Road ecology
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