Daily Current Affairs Article 13th January 2021: Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change released Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) of 146 National Park and Wildlife Sanctuaries in the Country.
At present, India has a network of 903 Protected Areas in the country covering about 5% of the total geographic area of the country.
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Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) of Protected Areas (PAs) has emerged as a key tool for PA managers and is increasingly being used by governments and international bodies to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the protected area management systems.
The results of present assessment are encouraging with overall mean MEE score of 62.01% which is higher than the global mean of 56%.
With this round of evaluation, the Ministry of Environment successfully completed one full cycle of evaluating all terrestrial National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries of the country from 2006 to 2019.
