The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (17 June) highlights the urgent need for sustainable land management. India, facing 97.85 million hectares of land degradation, actively targets restoring 26 million hectares by 2030 through watershed development, the Green India Mission, and the Aravalli Green Wall.
Click to View MoreThe Supreme Court’s 100-metre elevation rule for the Aravallis threatens over 90% of India's oldest fold mountains. Urgent landscape-level conservation and the Aravalli Green Wall Project are critical to prevent desertification, water scarcity, and severe pollution across North-West India.
Click to View MoreThe Aravalli Range, North India’s crucial dust and desertification shield, faces severe degradation. Recent Supreme Court rulings redefining the hills for mining regulations have sparked ecological concerns, amplifying the urgent need for the Aravalli Green Wall eco-restoration project.
Click to View MoreThe Supreme Court has stayed its earlier judgment that accepted a uniform definition of the Aravalli hills based on height and cluster criteria. It took this step after concerns that the definition could reduce protection for large parts of the Aravalli range and encourage mining and construction. The Court has paused the grant or renewal of mining leases in the region without its permission and proposed setting up a high-powered expert committee to scientifically reassess the definition. The order emphasises the precautionary principle and underscores that the Aravallis must be protected as an integrated ecological system until a final decision is reached.
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