Wildlife Protection Act News

The Madras High Court has set aside an order mandating a blanket statewide ban on temples acquiring or keeping elephants and observed that the conservation direction aimed at stopping any fresh depletion of the wild elephant population, whereas an elephant gen

Under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in 2022, species are placed under schedules that determine the level of protection they receive. Schedule I represents the highest level of protection under the current framework