Is the Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill a missed opportunity? | In Focus podcast
2 years ago

Is the Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill a missed opportunity? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

The Rajya Sabha passed the Wildlife Protection Bill, 2021 earlier this month. The Bill, which amends the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, has been justified on the grounds that it was needed to implement provisions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, to which India is a signatory. It has also been criticised for diluting the federal framework by seeking to displace the State Boards of Wildlife, which are chaired by the Chief Minister, with a Standing Committee headed by the Union Forest Minister, evoking fears of turning a body vested with wildlife guardianship into a ‘rubber-stamping’ authority. Guest: Prerna Bindra, an environmental journalist, visiting faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, and a recipient of the Carl Zeiss Wildlife Conservation Award.

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‘Due procedure followed while amending laws on environment’: Centre tells LS
2 weeks ago

‘Due procedure followed while amending laws on environment’: Centre tells LS

Hindustan Times  

The due procedure was followed in making key amendments to the Environment Protection Act, Wildlife Protection Act, and Biological Diversity Act, the Environment Ministry informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. ‘Due procedure followed while amending laws on environment’: Centre tells LS This included consultations with stakeholders including the public, NGOs, experts, state governments and ministries/government agencies, the minister of state …

Will the new wildlife rules accelerate illegal trade of India’s captive elephants | In Focus podcast
8 months ago

Will the new wildlife rules accelerate illegal trade of India’s captive elephants | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

The Indian government recently brought in an amendment to the Wildlife Protection Act with regard to captive elephants. This amendment, the rules for which came in last month, regulates the transfer or transport of captive elephants, and has sparked an outcry from animal rights activists. Captive elephants however, because of their historical role in India where they have been part …

LS polls: Human-animal conflict emerges as a major talking point in Kerala
9 months, 1 week ago

LS polls: Human-animal conflict emerges as a major talking point in Kerala

Hindustan Times  

At least nine lives have been lost in Idukki and Wayanad Districts in the last three months, and numerous others have been injured in wildlife attacks, particularly by elephants, tigers and wild boars, among others. Considering the recent surge in human-animal conflict, the Kerala Assembly passed a resolution on February 14 that called on the Centre to amend the Act …

HT This Day: August 22, 1972 -- Wild life to be saved; Bill passed
1 year, 4 months ago

HT This Day: August 22, 1972 -- Wild life to be saved; Bill passed

Hindustan Times  

The Lok Sabha today adopted a Bill which aims at arresting the rapid decline of India’s wild animals and birds some of which have already become extinct and others are in danger of being so. HT This Day: August 22, 1972 -- Wild life to be saved; Bill passed Under the Wild Life Bill, a wild life advisory board will …

The hornets’ nests in the Forest Amendment Bill
1 year, 4 months ago

The hornets’ nests in the Forest Amendment Bill

The Hindu  

The Lok Sabha passed the Forest Amendment Bill, 2023, on July 26, with no substantive changes from the original version introduced in March. The problem areas The Forest Conservation Act of 1980, which this Bill aims to amend, admittedly and justifiably adopted a rather protectionist stance which made forest clearances time consuming and costly to obtain. Three points that emerge …

Forest Conservation Amendment Bill gets Lok Sabha nod: Know about the bill and its main features
1 year, 4 months ago

Forest Conservation Amendment Bill gets Lok Sabha nod: Know about the bill and its main features

India TV News  

On the fifth day of the ongoing Parliament Monsoon Session, the Lok Sabha passed the Forest Amendment Bill 2023 on Wednesday. Key Features: Land under the ambit of the Act The Bill specifies that two types of land will be under the purview of the Act: land designated as a forest under the Indian Forest Act of 1927 or under …

Science-wise: Govt’s Proposed Environment Bill, Threat to India’s Natural Forest Cover or Need of the Hour?
1 year, 4 months ago

Science-wise: Govt’s Proposed Environment Bill, Threat to India’s Natural Forest Cover or Need of the Hour?

News 18  

Even as the country grapples with fast-disappearing green cover, a new draft legislation could pave the way for more such diversions of forest land for other activities. In line with that objective, the draft bill may open up the country’s forest land for diversion as it exempts forest land within 100 kms of India’s national borders from the purview of …

Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 | Jungle book vs rule book
1 year, 6 months ago

Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 | Jungle book vs rule book

The Hindu  

In the preamble to the Forest Amendment Bill, 2023, introduced by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the Lok Sabha on March 29, it is stated that the importance of forests must be realised to achieve India’s target of Net Zero Emission by 2070 and to maintain or enhance the forest carbon stocks through ecologically balanced sustainable …

Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023: Does it aim for climate mitigation at the expense of biodiversity, forest rights? | In Focus podcast
1 year, 7 months ago

Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023: Does it aim for climate mitigation at the expense of biodiversity, forest rights? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

The Central government introduced the Forest Amendment Bill, 2023 in the Lok Sabha on March 29th this year. Generally speaking, the Bill exempts certain types of forest land from the protection afforded by the Act. The government has also not inspired much confidence regarding its intentions by sending the Bill to a Select committee of Parliament instead of referring it …

Wildlife (Protection) Act amendment misses chance to free captive elephants
1 year, 11 months ago

Wildlife (Protection) Act amendment misses chance to free captive elephants

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 29, 2022 10:30 IST With the President’s assent, on December 19, the Bill to amend the Wildlife Act, 1972, is now officially law. The amendment is primarily aimed at revising four aspects of the law: allowing delegation of functions of the State Boards for Wildlife to a select set of people as is currently the case with …

From India-China Border Clash to Covid, Winter Session Ends Early
2 years ago

From India-China Border Clash to Covid, Winter Session Ends Early

News 18  

Scheduled to conduct 17 sittings from December 7 till the concluding day of the Winter Session on December 29, both the Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die on Friday after having 13 sessions in the last 17 days. Amid accusations by the Opposition that the government did not let the debate on the Indian and Chinese troops’ clash along …

The wildlife bill needs a review
2 years ago

The wildlife bill needs a review

Hindustan Times  

Even as the eyes of the country were trained on assembly election results, Parliament passed an important, if somewhat controversial, piece of legislation that amended key sections of India’s wildlife law. First, the exemption made to allow the transfer of captive elephants and second, the provision of standing committees of the state wildlife boards. Since 2003, WLPA banned trade in …

Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill Permitting Ownership Of Elephants Passed In Parliament
2 years ago

Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill Permitting Ownership Of Elephants Passed In Parliament

Live Law  

The Rajya Sabha today passed the Wild Life Amendment Bill, 2022 which seeks to give effect to India's obligations under the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which requires countries to regulate trade of all listed specimens through permits. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said that in India, illegal animal trade is regulated under Custom …

Review of Wildlife India@50: Wild encounters
2 years, 2 months ago

Review of Wildlife India@50: Wild encounters

The Hindu  

The ceremonious airlifting of the long extinct cheetah, from Namibia to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, and a recent report indicting humans for being responsible for the extermination of at least 70% of the world’s wildlife, offer a disturbing backdrop to reading WildlifeIndia@50. Edited by Manoj Kumar Misra, a former member of the Indian Forest Service, the book …

Jairam Ramesh opposes provisions of Wildlife Bill passed in Lok Sabha
2 years, 4 months ago

Jairam Ramesh opposes provisions of Wildlife Bill passed in Lok Sabha

The Hindu  

A week since the Lok Sabha passed the Wildlife Bill, Jairam Ramesh, Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Wildlife and Climate Change has objected to provisions of the Bill. The approved Bill allows the “transfer and transport…for a religious or any other purpose” of captured elephants—a deviation Mr. Ramesh alleged—from the Committee’s recommendation that they be allowed only for temple elephants. …

Lok Sabha passes Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021. What it means.
2 years, 4 months ago

Lok Sabha passes Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021. What it means.

Hindustan Times  

The Wild Life Amendment Bill, 2021 was passed by Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The bill, first introduced in Lok Sabha by the minister of environment, forest and climate change on December 17, 2021, amends the Wild Life Act, 1972. The previous Wild Life Act, 1972 had six schedules for specially protected plants, specially protected animals, and one vermin species. The …

Explained | India’s Wild life Protection Act - features, shortcomings & recommended changes​
2 years, 5 months ago

Explained | India’s Wild life Protection Act - features, shortcomings & recommended changes​

The Hindu  

The story so far: With the monsoon session of the Parliament set to commence on July 18, one of the Bills up for deliberation and passage is the Wild Life Amendment Act 2021. The Wild Life Bill which was introduced in the Lok Sabha in the 2021 Winter session is one of the few bills sent to a standing committee …

Corporate control over biodiversity? That’s what this new Bill would like to see
2 years, 6 months ago

Corporate control over biodiversity? That’s what this new Bill would like to see

The Hindu  

Published : May 30, 2022 06:00 IST IN his recent book, The Nutmeg’s Curse, the author Amitav Ghosh dispels the myth that in the present time human-made goods take precedence over natural products. The Biological Diversity Act, 2002, marked a significant departure from the “command and control” approach of other environmental laws since it recognised the significant role of local …

Parliamentary Panel for body to address human-animal conflict
2 years, 8 months ago

Parliamentary Panel for body to address human-animal conflict

The Hindu  

The Environment Ministry must constitute an advisory body of experts to tackle growing instances of human-animal conflict, according to a report by the Standing Committee on Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change headed by Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh. One of the clauses proposed by the Ministry was to have a Standing Committee of the State Board for Wild Life …

Parliamentary panel cautions against trade in captive elephants
2 years, 8 months ago

Parliamentary panel cautions against trade in captive elephants

The Hindu  

Do not encourage sale and purchase of captive elephants, the Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change, headed by senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, has recommended. The Parliamentary panel has urged the government to remove the controversial clause in the Wild Life Amendment Bill, 2021 that overrides the original Act, making an exception only for the …

Bill in Lok Sabha seeks changes in wildlife protection act
3 years ago

Bill in Lok Sabha seeks changes in wildlife protection act

Hindustan Times  

A bill which seeks to amend the Wild Life Act, 1972 for better implementation of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora was introduced in Lok Sabha on Friday. The Wildlife Protection Amendment bill 2021 was introduced by Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav amid din created by the Opposition over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence issue. …

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