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Environmental Law: The Centre for Environmental Law was established in New Delhi by WWF-India in 1993 to provide a professional support base for environmental law and policy in India. The centre has six units: networking, publications and media, information, education, research and litigation.

The education unit offers a diploma in Environmental Law for law students and lawyers. The course deals with national and international laws relating to land, forests, wildlife, air, and water. A short certificate course for NGOs, government officials, and journalists is also being planned.

The litigation unit of the Centre has filed several landmark petitions and received favourable orders in many of them. The cases relate to the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary and Gahirmatha National Park in the state of Orissa whose unique mangrove ecosystem had come under severe threat due to illegal construction and industrial work. In Gujarat in western India, the Narayan Sarovar Wildlife Sanctuary which is home to the famous but endangered Chinkara Deer (also known as the Indian Gazelle), was denotified by the state government. And in the Delhi, the Ridge, which is the green lung of the capital, had been besieged by illegal allotments, encroachments and deforestation. WWF-India tackled these issues head-on by filing petitions against the concerned authorities.


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