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1. Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) was established vide Resolution No.ENV-1090-GOI-122-P, dated 29.10.92.
    

2. The objectives of Gujarat Ecology Commission are:

   1. To provide an organization that plans and works for restoration of ecologically degraded areas to ensure the ecological health of Gujarat systematically and holistically.

   2. To arouse a collective ecological consciousness among the people of Gujarat and to develop a conservation ethos in the State that would militiate against ecological degradation anywhere in the State and strive to restore the ecological balance through peoples organized action.

   3. To undertake on its own or with the support of other agencies, rehabilitation or restoration of disturbed ecosystems of the State with special emphasis on degraded lands (waste lands) including ravines (kotars) mangroves, water bodies, river systems and degraded forests.

   4. To create institutions and organizations necessary for achieving the objectives of G.E.C.

   5. To act as the State's single umbrella for accreditation of various NGOs eligible for funding for activities aimed at ecological restoration of degraded ecosystems (wastelands, mangroves, degraded forests, water bodies, river Systems, etc.) and

   6. allocation of funds to various non-government agencies for programmes of ecological restoration including project implementation, research and extension.
       

3. The Commission has carried out studies, some of which are :

   1. Desertification in north & northwest Gujarat,

   2. Spread of salinity around the Gulf of Khambhat,

   3. Biological diversity of Gujarat: the current knowledge.

GEC is entrusted with the tasks of preparing State Environment Action Programme and administering NGO Environment Action Fund under the World Bank's Project on Environmental Management Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project.