The Union Ministry of Environment has announced the Captive Elephant (Transfer or Transport) Rules, 2024, detailing regulations for the movement of captive elephants within and between states.
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change notified the Living Animal Species Rules 2024 stating, Every person who is in possession of any animal species (in schedule IV) shall report the details and make an application for registration electronically to the Management Authority or the authorised officer within a period of six month
The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has recently unveiled the Wildlife (Transactions and Taxidermy) Rules, 2024. These rules aim to regulate the acquisition, possession, and trade of specified animals and animal articles, as well as the taxidermy process.
The central government has excluded some species from the process of issuing licences for their wildlife trade in the revised rules that have come after four decades.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on December 21, 2023, issued the Wild Life (Protection) International Trade of Specimen Rules, 2023. The following has been stated : The application for the trade of specimens has been mentioned. The procedure of export, import, and re-export of specimens has been stated.
The Indian government has introduced a new set of rules known as the Wildlife Disposal of Wild Animal Article Rules, 2023. These Rules were notified on 12th July, 2023 and come into effect from that date.
An Act further to amend the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. This Act may be called the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change submitted its report on the proposed , which was introduced in Lok Sabha last December.
A bill which seeks to conserve and protect wildlife through better management of protected areas and rationalise schedules which list out species under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 17, 2021.
