Overview
- Uttarakhand must submit a CEC-supervised ecological restoration plan within two months and demolish all unauthorised structures within three months.
- The bench directed compensation for illegal tree felling and placed the chief wildlife warden under CEC oversight for implementation.
- Tiger safaris must comply with NTCA’s 2019 rules, with rescue centres near safari sites and limits on vehicle numbers to ensure eco-tourism.
- The Court ordered a tiger conservation plan to be framed within three months and barred outsourcing of staff functions, with special treatment for core-area staff.
- The judgment criticised former forest minister Harak Singh Rawat and DFO Kishan Chand as a CBI probe examines the felling of roughly 3,000 trees in the reserve.