The Supreme Court on Monday directed that tiger safaris shall be established only on “non-forest land or degraded forest land in buffer areas provided they are not part of a tiger corridor.” ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO

Penning the 80-page verdict, Chief Justice of India B R Gavai issued a slew of directions – running into 28 pages – aimed at reversing large-scale ecological damage inside the tiger reserves.

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai and Justices AG Masih and AS Chandurkar, which accepted the recommendations of an expert committee appointed by it to examine the ecological violations inside the Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand, “categorically held that tiger safari shall not be permitted in the core or a critical tiger habitat area.”

In its order, the ben

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