Centre grants in-principle approval to oil and gas exploration in Assam's hoolock gibbon sanctuary - OrissaPOST
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Centre grants in-principle approval to oil and gas exploration in Assam's hoolock gibbon sanctuary - OrissaPOST
Guwahati: The Union environment ministry has granted in-principle approval to divert around 4.50 hectares of forest land in Assam, home to the endangered hoolock gibbon, for oil and gas exploration by a Vedanta Group company. Cairn Oil & Gas will carry out exploratory oil drilling in the ecosensitive zone of the Hoollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in Jorhat district, the sole habitat for India’s only ape species. The ministry’s Forest Advisor…
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