City-based environmental activists has filed a complaint against the timber mafia before the Supreme Court Empowered Committee (CEC) on Monday. They are seeking a ban on the indiscriminate felling of trees like Neem that are in the exempted list. In their petition, the activists asked the CEC to direct the state-level committee not to issue licences to saw mills.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/experts-appeal-panel-against-timber-mafia
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/deccan-chronicle-hyderabad
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hyderabad-d
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/central-empowered-committee-cec
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/supreme-court
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trees
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/timber-smuggling
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environmentalists
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/andhra-pradesh
