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- The Government shall ensure that, in order to conserve the country’s natural resources and to prevent degradation of the ecosystem, a minimum of sixty percent of Bhutan’s total land shall be maintained under forest cover for all time.
- Parliament may enact environmental legislation to ensure sustainable use of natural resources and maintain intergenerational equity and reaffirm the sovereign rights of the State over its own biological resources.
- Parliament may, by law, declare any part of the country to be a National Park, Wildlife Reserve, Nature Reserve, Protected Forest, Biosphere Reserve, Critical Watershed and such other categories meriting protection.
Article 6
Citizenship
- A person, both of whose parents are citizens of Bhutan, shall be a natural born citizen of Bhutan.
- A person, domiciled in Bhutan on or before the Thirty-First of December Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Eight and whose name is registered in the official record of the Government of Bhutan shall be a citizen of Bhutan by registration.
- A person who applies for citizenship by naturalization shall:
- Have lawfully resided in Bhutan for at least fifteen years;
- Not have any record of imprisonment for criminal offences within the country or outside;
- Be able to speak and write Dzongkha;
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