India, Sept. 8 -- The Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife (SCNBWL) has deferred a decision on extending the policy for voluntary community relocation to wildlife corridors and reclassifying the rhesus monkey under the Wildlife Protection Act, calling for further studies and wider consultations.
The relocation proposal sought to strengthen "compactness and consolidation of habitat to improve resilience of protected areas" by extending the voluntary relocation policy, currently limited to core areas of tiger reserves, to "communities in critical biodiversity-rich areas, buffer zones and wildlife corridors".
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