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The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted for the protection of plants and animal species. Before 1972, India had only five designated national parks . Among other reforms, the Act established scheduled protected plant and hunting certain animal species or harvesting these species was largely outlawed. [ 1 ]
These protected area categories were first introduced in the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act of 2002 − the amendment to the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. [1] These categories were added because of reduced protection in and around existing or proposed protected areas due to private ownership of land, and land use.
The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2006 provisions came in to force on 6 June 2007. It became operational in the year 2008. [1] WCCB won the 2010 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards for its outstanding work on wildlife law enforcement in the country, which was received by Ramesh K Pandey, Deputy Director, on behalf of WCCB. [2]
Between 1936 and 2022, 567 wildlife sanctuaries were established in the country that cover 122,564.86 km 2 (47,322.56 sq mi), roughly 3.73% of the geographical area of the country. [4] Among these, the 53 tiger reserves [1] are governed by Project Tiger, and are of special significance for the conservation of the Bengal tiger.
Amendment to negate judicial pronouncements on scope and applicability on Sales Tax. Zail Singh: 47th: Amend schedule 9. [55] 26 August 1984 Place land reform acts and amendments to these act under Schedule 9 of the constitution. 48th: Amend article 356. [56] 1 April 1985 Article 356 amended to permit President's rule up to two years in the ...
Articles 245–255 on Distribution of Legislative Powers. The Constitution provides for a three-fold distribution of legislative subjects between the Union and the states, viz., List-I (the Union List), List-II (the State List) and List-III (the Concurrent List) in the Seventh Schedule: (i) The Parliament has exclusive powers to make laws with respect to any of the matters enumerated in the ...
The Social Security Fairness Act, one of the most bipartisan bills in Congress this session, aims to repeal WEP and GPO. The House voted to pass the legislation Nov. 12, and the Senate approved it ...
The wild tiger population increased to 3,682 as of 2022. [13] As India is home to majority of the global wild tiger population, the increase in population of tigers in India played a major role in driving up global populations as well; the number of wild tigers globally rose from 3,159 in 2010 to 3,890 in 2016 according to the World Wide Fund ...