New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- A group of retired forest officers has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding the immediate scrapping of the 10,000-acre Aravalli Zoo safari project in Gurugram and Nuh districts of Haryana. In their letter, 37 retired Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers, including the former principal chief conservators of forests, argued that the project is focused on boosting tourism rather than conserving wildlife.
They also highlighted the "alarming destruction" of India's oldest mountain range due to mining, quarrying, real estate development, and deforestation. The retired forest officers pointed out that human activities in the Aravallis, which stretch across Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, and end near Delhi, have de...