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Former State Environment Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) person Aaditya Thackeray urged Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav to halt the “disastrous” mining task successful Marki Mangli successful the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve corridor successful Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district.
Mr. Thackeray, connected Thursday (January 22, 2026), wrote a missive to the Union Minister and asked him to intervene and cancel the approved mining projects successful Lohardongari adjacent the Ghodazari Wildlife Sanctuary and Marki-Mangli successful the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve corridor by the State Board for Wildlife.
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He highlighted that these projects are “detrimental” to some the forests they are successful arsenic good arsenic the wildlife that inhabits these forests, asking to support these forests and the inhabiting wildlife arsenic per the mandate of the wood ministry.
“The expected output from these projects is comparatively debased compared to the unchecked ecological harm they volition inflict. Furthermore, the prospective gross they volition make for the authorities is minimal,” helium stated successful the letter.
He besides pointed retired the Opposition of definite members of the State Board for Wildlife to projects but overruled by the chair.
Taking to X, helium said, “Back successful 2020, arsenic Minister for Environment and Climate Change (Maharashtra), I had denied support to Marki Mangli successful the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve corridor.”
I person written to Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav ji for his involution to halt the perfectly disastrous determination of the State Board for Wildlife to let mining successful Tiger Corridors.
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Meanwhile, Bandu Dhotre, the President Eco-Pro Organization, former-member SBWL, Maharashtra, has started a signature petition to halt the Lohardongari Mine and support the Tadoba-Bramhapuri Tiger Corridor.
The petition urges section government, the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), and biology authorities to reconsider this proposal.
It says, “The task demands 35.94 hectares of Reserved Forest, involving the felling of 18,024 trees. The onshore is located successful the Bramhapuri wood division, adjacent to the Ghodajhari Wildlife Sanctuary, serving arsenic a important tiger corridor connecting the root colonisation of tigers successful the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) to the Bramhapuri-Gadchiroli scenery and bluish tiger-bearing forests.”
