NATIONAL WILDLIFE BOARD OF INDIA

Subject : Environment

Context: Recently , Supreme Court stated that national wildlife board has not met for about six years.

Concept:

The National Board for Wildlife has 47 members with the Prime Minister in the Chair.
The Minister in charge of the MoEF in GOI is the Vice-Chairperson.
The Additional Director General of Forests (WL) & Director, Wildlife Preservation is the Member-Secretary to the Board.
Other members include three Members of Parliament (two from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha), five NGOs and 10 eminent ecologists, conservationists and environmentalists.
The board is advisory in nature and advises the GOI in conservation and development of wildlife and forests.
It has the power to review all wildlife-related matters and approve projects in and around national parks and sanctuaries.
No alternation of boundaries in national parks and wildlife sanctuaries can be done without the approval of the National Board for Wildlife.