VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

ACTS AND RULES RELATED TO ZOO AND WILD ANIMALS
SCHEDULES

 

Schedule I to VI are dealt by Wildlife Protection Act 1972 with amendments during 1986 and 1991. Important animals in each schedule are given below:

Schedule I

• Part I – Mammals
• Indian chinkara, Indian lion, Indian wild ass, Indian wolf, leopard, leopard cat, Lion-tailed macaque, Loris, Gaur or Indian Bison, Cheetah, Indian gazelle, Dugong, Nilgiri Tahr, Niligiri langur, Musk deer, Sloth bear, Tiger, Wild Buffalo, Mouse deer, Hog badger, Hispid Hare, Chinese pangoling, Crab-eating macaque, Desert fox, Fishing cat, Four-horned antelope, Indian one-horned Rhinoceros, Rusty spotted cat, Serow, Swamp deer etc.
• Part II – Amphibians and Reptiles
• Pythons, Water lizard, Gharial, Estuarine (or) Salt water crocodile, Golden Gecko, Green sea turtle, Leathery turtle, Logger head turtle, Hawksbill turtle, Indian egg-eating snake.
• Part II A – Fishes
• Whale shark, Shark, Ray, Sea horse, Giant grouper.
• Part III – Birds
• Hornbills, Mountain quail, Peafowl, Andaman teal, Nicobar megapods, Nicobar pigeon, Bengal florican, Black-necked crane etc.
• Part IV – Insects
• Butterflies and Moths.
• Part IV A – Coelentrates
• Fire coral, Sea fan, Roof building coral.
• Part IV B – Mollusca
• Part IV C – Echinodermata

Sea cucumber (all Holothurians)

Schedule II

• Part I – Bonnet macaque, Common langur, Wild dog, Chameleon, Spiny tailed lizard or Sanda.
• Part II – Beetles.

Schedule III

• Chital, Barking deer or Muntjac, Gorals, Hog deer, Wild pig, Nilgai, Sponges.

Schedule IV

• Indian Hedgehogs, Indian porcupine, Mongooses, Polecats.

Schedule V

• Common crow, Fruit bats, Mice, Rats, Five striped palm squirrel, Black napped hare, Common Indian hare, Desert hare, Himalayan mouse hare.

Schedule VI

• Birds like Coots, Cranes, Cormorants, Flamingos, Ibises.
• Ladies slipper orchids, Red Vanda, Blue Vanda.

Indian Biological diversity Act, 2002

• This is act to provide for constitution of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources, knowledge and for matters connected there with or incidental threats.

Following are the important definitions in this:

• ‘Chairperson’ means the chairperson of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) or as to case may be of the State Biodiversity Board.
• ‘Member’ means a member of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) or a State Biodiversity Board and includes the Chairperson.
• Bio-survey and Bio-utilization means survey or collection of species, sub species, genus, components and extracts of biological resource for any purpose and includes characterization, inventorisation and bioassay.
• “Value added products” means products containing potions or extracts of animals as well as the plants in unrecognizable and physically inseparable form