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    Ecologically Sensitive Zones are areas designated to protect biodiversity and natural habitats by regulating activities. They aim to minimize conflicts between humans and nature while reducing forest depletion and ecological imbalances. ESZs include 10 km zones around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, and regulate activities like mining, industry, dams, and construction to maintain ecological balance.

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    Ecologically Sensitive Zones are areas designated to protect biodiversity and natural habitats by regulating activities. They aim to minimize conflicts between humans and nature while reducing forest depletion and ecological imbalances. ESZs include 10 km zones around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, and regulate activities like mining, industry, dams, and construction to maintain ecological balance.

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    Ecologically Sensitive Zones are areas designated to protect biodiversity and natural habitats by regulating activities. They aim to minimize conflicts between humans and nature while reducing forest depletion and ecological imbalances. ESZs include 10 km zones around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, and regulate activities like mining, industry, dams, and construction to maintain ecological balance.

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    Eco-Sensitive zones

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    Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ) are the areas designated to protect the biodiversity and
    conservation of natural habitats for specific species. It aims to minimize the conflict between man and
    nature and reduce forest depletion and ecological imbalances. The purpose of declaring ESZs is to
    create some protected areas, especially around natural parks and wildlife sanctuaries, by regulating and
    controlling certain activities. It includes areas within 10 km of the boundaries of national parks and
    wildlife sanctuaries, considered eco-fragile zones and protected by regulations.

    Purpose of Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ):


    The purpose of creating Ecologically Sensitive Zones is to maintain the ecological balance and
    biodiversity in different regions of the country where the natural environment of the habitat of animals
    is facing a threat due to the rapid increase in various development projects like the establishment of
    industry, mining, erection of dams, and road construction. These developmental activities have led to
    the depletion of forest lands and affect their natural growth due to increased pollution. The areas
    reserved for the survival and growth of natural flora and fauna must be protected from human
    intervention by building a protective boundary around them.

    Features of Ecologically Sensitive Zones(ESZ):


    As per the regulations imposed concerning the ESZ, certain activities are regulated or not permitted in
    and around these protected areas, which are creating potential risks and hazards to natural resources.
    Activities that aim to reduce environmental pollution, protect natural lives, and enhance agricultural
    outputs are permitted around the ESZ. The details are given as follows:
    A. Activities Permitted: Ongoing agricultural or horticultural practices, rainwater harvesting, organic
    farming, and renewable energy sources.
    B. Activities Prohibited: Commercial mining, sawmills, industries causing pollution, hydroelectric
    projects, commercial use of wood, tourism activities like hot-air balloons, and discharge of industrial
    and domestic waste.
    C. Activities Under Regulation: Establishment of hotels and resorts, commercial use of natural water,
    laying of electrical cables, adoption of heavy technology, and widening of roads.
    Ecologically Sensitive Zones are meant to guard the ecologically sensitive areas from the negative
    impact of specific human developmental activities. The guidelines state that the SEZs are to be created
    considering the daily livelihoods of local people to bring some refinement to the environment around
    them.

    Significance of ESZs
    • Minimise the Impact of Development Activities:
    ◦ Impact of urbanization and other developmental activities.
    • In-situ Conservation:
    ◦ Conservation of an endangered species in its natural habitat, for example the conservation of
    the One-horned Rhino of Kaziranga National Park, Assam.
    • Minimise Forest Depletion and Man-Animal Conflict:
    ◦ Minimise forest depletion and man-animal conflict.
    ◦ The protected areas are based on the core and buffer model of management, through which
    local area communities are also protected and benefitted.
    • Minimise the Negative Impact on the Fragile Ecosystems:
    ◦ The purpose of declaring eco-sensitive zones around protected areas is to create some kind
    of a 'Shock Absorber' for the protected area.
    ◦ They also act as a transition zone from areas of high protection to areas involving lesser
    protection.

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