Greater than 6000 timber have been felled illegally to start out a tiger safari within the Kalagarh forest division of Corbett Tiger Reserve, the Forest Survey of India (FSI) has stated in its report.
The Uttarakhand forest division had taken the clearance of the Union Ministry of Forest, Surroundings and Local weather Change for the tiger safari challenge saying solely 163 timber will probably be chopped off within the course of.
However the FSI in its report stated 6,093 timber have been felled over 16.21 hectares of land instead of 163 for the tiger safari challenge at Pakhro within the Kalagarh forest division.
The report based mostly on a survey carried out by the FSI in June this yr was submitted to Uttarakhand’s Head of Forest Drive Vinod Kumar Singhal lately.
When contacted Singhal stated he disagrees with the strategy of FSI’s survey pattern. He stated he has despatched the report together with his feedback to the Uttarakhand authorities and FSI.
Unlawful felling of timber and constructions carried out within the buffer zone of Corbett has been probed by round half a dozen committees which have discovered the involvement of forest officers within the irregularities.
A lot of them have been transferred and suspended following their indictment by the probe panels because the matter first hit the headlines.