Focusing on forest and wildlife related crime control and related issues, the court and forest sector stakeholders are standing together in Pokhara. The Supreme Court, High Court, District Court, Government Attorney, Forest and Park officials and other stakeholders have said that coordination of all sectors is necessary to control wildlife and environmental crime.
Since environmental issues are new for the justice sector, an effort has been started at the initiative of the National Nature Conservation Fund and the Judges Society of Nepal with the aim of informing judges and lawyers about the issues related to it. In the discussion that started in Pokhara, intensive discussion on issues related to the justice sector and forest sector and issues related to wildlife crime Member Secretary of the National Nature Conservation Fund. Naresh Subedi said.
Addressing the program, Chief Justice Prakashman Singh Raut said that when the environmental issues are clear, the administration of justice will be faster. Speaking at a program organized by the National Nature Conservation Fund and the Judges Society of Nepal, Chief Justice Raut said that the issues related to the environment are clear and there are no other ambiguities, so the decisions are quick. 'Environmental matters are clear and clear,' said Chief Justice Raut, 'so the cases related to this matter will be settled quickly.'
In relation to environmental justice, Chief Justice Raut, referring to the Supreme Court's ruling on the Godavari marble industry, ordered the government to create an environmental law in Nepal, Chief Justice Raut said that the Setamme mountains in Nepal have become black in the last decade due to the drying up of snow. He said that the justice sector is willing to cooperate with every sector but will not compromise with anyone.
Speaking at the two-day event that started on Saturday, Forest and Environment Minister Ain Bahadur Shahi Thakuri said that environmental protection is a common responsibility of all. He said that the government is implementing the decisions made by the court regarding forest and environment. Minister Thakuri, who is also the chairman of the fund, said He said that the existing challenges and opportunities of environmental justice should be analyzed and taken from the policy to the implementation level. He said these subjects He expressed his belief that he will draw a clear roadmap for future guidelines on how to take it to the judicial sector. Minister Shahi pointed out that when the world is going through the crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, there is a need for common understanding of these issues in all parts of the state.
Addressing the program, Supreme Court's senior judge Sapna Pradhan Malla said that in the midst of developed industrialized countries She said that small countries are vulnerable to environmental pollution. She said that the court considers the environmental study report EIA as a serious document. She also narrated the important decisions made by the court in the field of environmental justice at different times. He said that while it is possible to enjoy the environment with protection, the problem has arisen when it is consumed indiscriminately. She emphasized on the need to develop a sustainable ecological system.
Former Chief Justice Min Bahadur Rayamazhi insisted on conducting justice based on principles. The Chairman of the Special Court, Teknarayan Kunwar, said that wildlife crime is the fourth largest organized crime in the world and said that Nepal has recently started raising such issues in international courts. Forest Secretary Deepak Kharal said that doing conservation work would lead to accusations of being anti-development. He also said that there is a need to amend some laws related to forests. Gobind Prasad Pokharel, conservation officer of the fund, said that the
fund has been conducting such coordinated discussions and conferences in all the seven provinces of the country in coordination with the judges society. According to him, in the last one year, the fund, in collaboration with Judges Society Nepal, has made more than a hundred judges from supreme, high, special, district and other levels participate in programs related to wildlife crime and environmental justice. Ambika Prasad Khatiwada, senior conservation officer, said that the
fund has conducted programs related to livelihood in order to establish people who have been imprisoned for wildlife crimes a few years ago in the society. The fund said that in some places of Chitwan, communities with poor economic conditions have been conducting programs related to livelihood, seeing the danger of being involved in wildlife crime.
