India, Aug. 25 -- Voluntary relocation of people from biodiversity-rich areas, buffer zones, or designated corridor areas, and guidelines for infrastructure development in and around wetlands within protected areas and their notified eco-sensitive zones were among the key agenda items for the National Board for Wildlife (SCNBWL)'s Standing Committee meeting on August 19. Decisions on these items will be available in the minutes of the meeting, which are yet to be published.

An in-house committee has been constituted to facilitate the guidelines for infrastructural development in and around wetlands located within protected areas and their designated eco-sensitive zones.

Birder and conservationist Anand Arya cited the agenda of the meeti...