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The Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife asked the Madhya Pradesh government to explore alternative areas for compensatory notification while considering the proposed denotification of the Bagdara Wildlife Sanctuary.
Bagdara Wildlife Sanctuary lies in the Sidhi and Singrauli districts of Madhya Pradesh.
It covers roughly 478 sq km and was established in 1978.
The sanctuary was created primarily for the conservation of blackbuck.
Denotifying any part of a sanctuary requires clearance through the National Board for Wildlife process.
A wildlife sanctuary's boundaries cannot be reduced at the discretion of a state government. Under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, altering the boundaries of a sanctuary or national park requires a recommendation of the National Board for Wildlife, and the courts have required that any land taken out be matched by land of comparable ecological value being notified in its place. That replacement is what is meant by compensatory notification, and it is the reason the Standing Committee asked Madhya Pradesh to identify alternative areas before the denotification proposal could proceed.
Simple Analogy: It works like a rule that you may only remove a brick from a wall if you put an equally sound brick back somewhere else in it.
GS Paper 3 > Conservation; GS Paper 2 > Statutory Bodies
General Awareness > Environment and Geography
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The removal of land from the legal ambit of a protected area.
Notifying replacement land of comparable ecological value to offset area removed from a protected area.
An antelope of the Indian open plains and grasslands, the species for whose conservation Bagdara was established.