🔆National Board for Wildlife
✅Established: Reconstituted in 2022 (Replacing the earlier Indian Board for Wildlife, which was formed in 1952).
Leadership:
✅Chairperson: Prime Minister of India (Ex-officio).
✅Vice-Chairperson: Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC).
📍Structure:
✅The 47-member committee includes government officials, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, and military personnel.
✅Approval from NBWL is Required for:
🔸Construction of tourist lodges.
🔸Alteration of Protected Area (PA) boundaries.
🔸Destruction/diversion of wildlife habitat.
🔸De-notification of Tiger Reserves.

🔆Gir National Park

✅ Location: Situated in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat.
✅ Established: In 1965, as a sanctuary, and later upgraded to a national park in 1975.
✅ It is the only place in the world outside Africa where a lion can be seen in its natural habitat.
1. Since the late 1960s, Asiastic lion numbers have increased from less than 200 to 674 (Census 2020).
✅ Gir is a home to 40 species of mammals and 425 species of birds.

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🔆National Board for Wildlife
✅Established: Reconstituted in 2022 (Replacing the earlier Indian Board for Wildlife, which was formed in 1952).
Leadership:
✅Chairperson: Prime Minister of India (Ex-officio).
✅Vice-Chairperson: Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC).
📍Structure:
✅The 47-member committee includes government officials, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, and military personnel.
✅Approval from NBWL is Required for:
🔸Construction of tourist lodges.
🔸Alteration of Protected Area (PA) boundaries.
🔸Destruction/diversion of wildlife habitat.
🔸De-notification of Tiger Reserves.

🔆Gir National Park

✅ Location: Situated in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat.
✅ Established: In 1965, as a sanctuary, and later upgraded to a national park in 1975.
✅ It is the only place in the world outside Africa where a lion can be seen in its natural habitat.
1. Since the late 1960s, Asiastic lion numbers have increased from less than 200 to 674 (Census 2020).
✅ Gir is a home to 40 species of mammals and 425 species of birds.

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