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Sarma has asked the district administration to take steps to stop destruction of mangrove plantations in the Visakhapatnam Port-HPCL-Airport region. I have enclosed the relevant Google Earth timeline pictures to show how the area covered under the mangroves had shrunk in size,” he said. more-inFormer IAS officer and social activist E.A.S. Writes to CollectorIn a letter to Collector Pravin Kumar, he said destruction of mangroves was in violation of Coastal Regulation Zone notification issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. Mr.
Sarma also referred to the CRZ notification which conferred the status of CRZ-I on mangroves surrounding estuaries and enclosed a Bombay High Court judgment directing the Maharashtra Government to treat the mangroves as a ‘reserve forest’ in terms of the apex court's judgment in the well-known Godavarman case..