Responsibility of Judiciary towards biodiversity
Responsibility of Judiciary towards biodiversity
Dr. Amita Singh
The Asia Pacific Disaster Research Group (NDRG) organized an international Biodiversity Day lecture on the 22nd May. It was overwhelmingly attended by academia, policy and legal experts from several South and East Asian countries. Everyone was looking forward to hearing how biodiversity issues could unite and re-ignite bonding between India and its neighbours led by two eminent judges, Justice Gita Mittal (Recently retired as Chief Justice of J&K High Court) as the theme speaker and Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid (Former Judge Pakistan Supreme Court & Chief Justice Sindh High Court) as the Chair for the programme. Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid set the ball rolling by expressing his concerns for biodiversity degradation which is not attracting much attention of judges in Courts as much as it is required. There have been laws, Acts and institutions to conserve biodiversity at th
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