The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) had assigned the responsibility to the Wildlife Institute of India to prepare a technical document ‘Eco-friendly measures to mitigate impacts of linear infrastructure on wildlife’ for rail, road and power transmission line planners and managers; forest and wildlife managers and wildlife biologists and other target groups. The Ministry has approved these guidelines which provide a template on measures for mitigating the impact of roads, railway lines and power lines on wildlife including birds. The Wildlife Institute of India, MoEFCC, National Tiger Conservation Authority, National Highways Authority of India and the World Bank Group contributed to the development of the guidelines.
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