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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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