Wildlife protection act 1972
- Wildlife protection Act provides for the protection of the country’s wild animals, birds, and plant species, in order to ensure environmental and ecological security. Among other things, the Act lays down restrictions on hunting many animal species.
Salient Features
- It provides for the appointment of wildlife advisory Board, Wildlife Warden, theirpowers, duties, etc.
- It helped in becoming a party to the Convention of International Trade inEndangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES, 1976).
- It supported launching a “national component of UNESCO’s ‘Man and Biosphere Programme’ (1971).
- The Act made a comprehensive list of endangered wildlife species for the first timeand prohibition of ....
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