Overview
- Tamil Nadu reaffirmed collaboration with the NGT and said it has notified eight new wildlife sanctuaries, including the Slender Loris Sanctuary and a Dugong Conservation Reserve.
- The state initiated a Marine Resource Foundation to support long-term marine research, blue carbon studies and coastal resilience planning.
- Experts urged biodiversity-specific environmental impact assessments with tighter inter-agency coordination to turn law into on-the-ground protection.
- Judges and officials backed technological upgrades for solid and biomedical waste systems, citing surveillance, performance scorecards, GIS route mapping and robotic segregation.
- Supreme Court and NGT leaders promoted cooperative ecological federalism through a potential Southern Environmental Compact to improve implementation.