Wildlife Amendment Bill 2013 Triggers fresh debate on forest and wildlife conservaton

While the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2013, tabled in the Rajya Sabha earlier this month aims to tighten Wildlife Protection Act (Protection) Act, 1972 (WLPA) provisions that protect wildlife and punish poaching and wildlife trade, it has triggered a fresh debate about wildlife conservation.
The States like Madhya Pradesh are already running with no resource at all to the Wildlife Research instead of having a rich biodiversity in terms of its flora and fauna. Considering several proposals it has been with hardships that Centre for Wildlife Forensics and Heath was granted in 2010 after much wait and the centre is yet to operate itself in full fledged manner.
But, the new chapter added with the proposed bill, tenuous relationship between Forest Departments in States and the research community is being put to the test again with new amendments proposed to the WLPA, some of which scientists see as an impediment to their research.

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 — with Avinash Jain and Ajay Dubey.