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The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 Parliament of India Long title An Act to provide for the protection of Wild animals, birds and plants and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto. Citation Act No. 53 of 1972 Enacted by Parliament of India Enacted 9 September 1972 Status: In force The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted ...
[2] [3] In December 2005, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was formed under section 38 of the amended Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, to administer the tiger reserves which were set up as a part of Project Tiger with Project Tiger becoming a centrally sponsored scheme (CSS) to provide funding for the establishment and ...
Act 2005 - 7 amending Act No. 185/2001 – Coll. on waste and on amendment to some other laws Decree 2004 – 382 – on the protection of farm animals at the time of slaughter, killing or other ways of putting to death
In 1972, India enacted the Wildlife Protection Act and Project Tiger in 1973 to safeguard the habitats of conservation reliant species. As of January 2023, [update] India has 106 national parks covering 44,402.95 square kilometres (17,144.07 sq mi), roughly 1.35% of the total geographical area of the country.
The Central Zoo Authority has been constituted under the section 38A of Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972. The Authority consists of a Chairman, ten members and a Member Secretary. The main objective of the authority is to complement the national effort in conservation of wild life.
The reason for this latter phenomenon is India's forest laws. India's forests are governed by two main laws, the Indian Forest Act, 1927 and the Wild life (Protection) Act, 1972. The former empowers the government to declare any area to be a reserved forest, protected forest or village forest.
The Indian Wildlife Protection Act 1972 protected the biodiversity. It was amended later multiple times. The 1988 National Forest Policy had conservation as its fundamental principle. In addition to these acts, the government passed the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 and Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act 1992 for control of ...
1972 – Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-500). Major rewrite. 1972 – Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (amended by Food Quality Protection Act of 1996) 1972 – Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972; 1973 – Endangered Species Act (amended 1978, 1982)