A view of an illegal stone quarry at Methoni Tea Estate, 5 km from Kaziranga National Park and an impornat elephant corridor. There are about 50 stone crushers and quarries around the National Park spread acrosss the three districts of Golaghat, Nagaon and Karbi Anglong, violating a 1996 notification of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), which declared an area within a 15 km radius of the Numaligarh Oil Refinery as No-Development Zone (NDZ) keeping in mind the eco-sensitivity of the area. Photo by Luit Chaliha/Indian Photo Agency