Western Ghats
Over 3,000 sq km environmentally fragile land in Kerala’s Western Ghats region has been exempted by Environment Ministry from the category of Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) demarcated by a high-level central government panel. Earlier, High Level Working Group on Western Ghats headed by K Kasturirangan had recommended that 13,108 sq km should be declared as [...] Continue Reading »
The Ministry of Environment & Forests has prepared a nomination dossier for the inscription of 39 sites in the Western Ghats on the World Heritage list. Of the 39 sites, four, including the Kas plateau, are in the Sahyadri (Maharashtra) range. Better connectivity to the plateau has resulted into huge number of visitors flocking the [...] Continue Reading »
