Guwahati, Nov. 4 -- Mining and quarrying activities continue at Parkup Pahar along the southern boundary of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve in Assam despite an explicit Supreme Court prohibition and repeated interventions by the Central Empowered Committee (CEC), raising fresh concerns over the protection of wildlife corridors connecting Kaziranga with the Karbi Anglong hills.

Environmental activist Rohit Choudhury has now written to the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, seeking urgent intervention to stop the ongoing mining activities in the Parkup Pahar Range, which falls within the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong Elephant Reserve.

In his letter, Choudhury alleged that the Government of Assam has failed to i...