The Gujarat department has been violating a Supreme Court stay order by cutting vast tracts of bamboo from the core forest areas of Shulpaneshwar and Purna wildife sanctuaries and supplying them to a paper mill. The department has even extended permits to cut the bamboo plants twice since the February 14, 2000, apex court judgement, which restrained all state governments "from ordering the removal of dead, diseased, dying or wind-fallen trees, drift wood and grasses from any national park or game sanctuary or forest".