THEY may be mute, 6ut they sure were
heared! They are the,Chinkaras, or the
Indian gazelles, which dwell in the drv
savanna regions of.Kutch in Gujarat. A
court battle for tht Chinkaras was
recently won, allowing them to retain
their only habitat in India, sans
encroachment.
The savannas, converted into a
Chinkara sanctuary in 198 1, had caught
the eyes of the miners and industrialism
The area contained huge deposits of fignite, limestone, bauxite and bentonite.The Sanghi Cement Ltd had eves
applied for the permission for limestont
mining. The state government, in an
effort to develop
the area, decided
to change the saixtuary bounclarim.
Taking up
issue with
Gujarat High
urt, the Centre for Environmental
joined by the World Wide Fund
Nature - India, fought it out for
Chinkaras, and won.
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