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The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has played an invaluable relation successful strengthening accountability, deepening biology jurisprudence, and ensuring that the “right to a steadfast environment” is not conscionable a law perfect but a lived reality, said Thangam Thennarasu, Minister for Finance, Environment and Climate Change, Pensions and Pensionary Benefits, and Archaeology.
“Tamil Nadu is committed not lone to compliance but besides to collaboration with the NGT successful shaping solutions that are legally sound, environmentally responsible, and socially just,” helium said, speaking astatine the inaugural league of the Regional Conference connected Environment-2025, organised by the National Green Tribunal, Southern Zone Bench, Chennai, and the Southern State Pollution Control Boards and Committees successful Chennai connected Saturday.
Mr. Thennarasu further said: “Tamil Nadu has notified 8 caller wildlife sanctuaries, the fastest enlargement of protected areas successful our state’s history, including India’s archetypal Slender Loris Sanctuary successful Dindigul and Dugong Conservation Reserve on the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay, a globally important seagrass habitat.”
“These aren’t conscionable notifications connected insubstantial but corridors that unafraid ecological connectivity, support endangered flora and fauna, and fortify semipermanent clime resilience,” helium added.
The Minister besides pointed retired that Tamil Nadu is location to 1,068 km of coastline, immoderate of India’s richest coral, seagrass, and mangrove ecosystems. “To safeguard this fragile coastal zone, we person initiated the enactment of the Marine Resource Foundation (MRF) a dedicated instauration that will, enactment semipermanent marine probe and monitoring, assistance successful bluish c studies and coastal resilience planning,” helium noted.
NGT Chairperson Prakash Shrivastava said the league was designed to code the distinctive biology concerns of South India.
“Effective biology governance requires sustained co-ordination among the State contamination power boards, section bodies, and technological institutions. Strengthening this co-operation is indispensable for addressing the shared biology challenges,” helium said.
