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Boundaries of Pulicat bird sanctuary
May 11 , 2024
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- The Tamil Nadu government has taken steps to denotify the boundaries of the Pulicat bird sanctuary, which includes 13 revenue villages.
- This will exclude the villages and thereby reduce the sanctuary’s eco-sensitive zone.
- A port expansion plan and an industrial park within the present default eco-sensitive zone threaten its future.
- Encompassing 720 square kilometres, most of the lake falls in Andhra Pradesh and less than 20% in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu.
- In 1980, the bird sanctuary was notified under Section 18 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.
- However, a final notification specifying the limits of the area within the sanctuary must be declared under Section 26A.
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