JOIN HANDS TO PROTECT MOTHER EARTH

Wildlife management includes the following fundamental approaches---

(a) Protection by Law - Laws should be passed to protect the endangered

species and severe punishment should be given to those hunters who indulge in their

illegal and senseless killings and the poachers who hunt them out for personal grains.

India is probably the first country to intact a wild life protection act. The wild Birds and

Animals Protection Act was first enacted in 1887 and repealed in 1912. A new wild life

(protection) Act was again enacted in 1972. Under this act, possession , trapping,

shooting of wild animals alive or dead, serving their meat for eating houses, their

transport and export are all controlled and watched chif wild life warden and other

authorized officers. The hunting of females and young ones has completely been

prohibited under this act, Moreover , threatened species are completely protected and

other have been provided protection according to their state of population size.

The wildlife (protection )Act, 1972 and the provisions of Convention on

International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and Export and Import Policy of

India are to be enforced through the officers of the Regional Deputy Directors of wild life

Preservation locatedat Delhi, Bombay , Calcutta and Madras with the help of state wild

life wings and the customs departments .

The wildlife (protection) Amendment Bill, 1991 . has also been enforced W

. e. f.2nd October, 1991. The new provisions of the Act regarding setting up of zoo
Authority, protection of rare and endangered species of plants and empowering of

individuals to file complaints against offenders should be enforced after the required

rules have been framed under the Act.

Consumptive Use wildlife --- Avery strict compliance of laws to protect wild

life and a blanket ban on hunting in the name of saving some rare species from

extinction may lead to rise in their population beyond the means of the country’s

depleting forests and wild life sanctuaries to provide them with food and their natural

habitats.

The new catch word among some environmentalists is sustainable consumptive

use of wild life so as to use it as an industry for continuous supply of furs, skins, ivory ,

bones and even ment .

Commercial Use - The International Union for Conservation of Nature

(IUCN) to which gose the credit of triggering the decline of wild life , has taken the stand

that only the encouragement of commercial use of wild life can guarantee the

conservation of plants and animals.

“The key conservation issue today is how much of the Earth’s surface can be

allocated to conservation programmes that seek only preservation” . It has been quoted

by Dr. Gralime webb, vice Chairman of the IUCN .

(b) Habital Preservation __ Establishment of sanctuaries and National Park . In

India, Government has set up more than 400 wildlife sanctuaries and more than 70

national parks for the protection and preservation of wildlife . Reserves which are large

and diverse enogh to protect whole sets of ecosystem, which are rare on a national or

world basis are usually known as National Parks. These preserve flora , fauna,

landscapes and historic objects of an area. Sanctuaries prohibited except under orders

an authorized preson . The sanctuaries provide protection and optimum living conditions

to wild animals. Indian sanctuaries possess unique landscapes, broad level forests ,

mountain , forests and virgin bush lands in deltas of big river .