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Guardians Of The Wild: Combating Wildlife Trafficking Globally

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Our planet is facing an unprecedented crisis. The simultaneous threats of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and climate change require immediate and concerted global action. The 2022 IU...

Child Sexual Abuse Laws in India: POCSO Act, 2012 and the Urgent Need for Leg...

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Child sexual abuse is a serious issue that affects millions of children around the world. It not only harms the victims physically and emotionally but also disrupts their mental development. Th...

Wildlife Protection Act, 1972: A Milestone in Conservation Efforts

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Wildlife Protection Act, 1972: A Milestone in Conservation EffortsThe Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 is one of the most significant pieces of legislation enacted in India for the conservation an...

Animal Cruelty Against Stray Animals

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In India cases of animal abuse are rising at a very higher rate specially against stray animals. This is a very crucial topic which is not discussed more. Stray animals have been abused to crue...

Animal Birth Control Rules, 2001: Balancing Humane Treatment and Public Welfare

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The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001 (hereinafter, "ABC Rules") represent a paradigm shift in India's approach to the regulation of street dog populations, rooted in the nation's ethos o...

Case Analysis: Animal Welfare Board Of India v/s Union Of India

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Case Analysis: Animal Welfare Board Of India V. Union Of India (2023 Insc 548) Citation:: 2023 INSC 548 - Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: Justices K.M. Joseph, Justices Ajay Rastogi, ...

The Unheard Cries of Animals: A Call for Rights

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They also have feelings; they shout, they cry, and they smile, but does that even matter in today's world and in the era where every other person promotes non-vegetarian food that contains more...

Animal Rights In India: A Deep Dive into Laws, Cases, and Conservation Efforts

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India is known for the most biodiversity regions in the world. India is home for about 92,873 animals. Thus there are several reasons due to which animals are getting affected and one of the re...

The Jalikattu Condrum: Tradition, Animal Rights And Legal Battles

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In the heart of Tamil Nadu, lies a tradition deeply entrenched in the cultural fabric of the region namely, JALLIKATTU. It is a Bull taming sport event practised as a part of Pongal celebration...

Protecting the Voiceless: Violation and Regulation Of Animal Protective Laws

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India, by covering of about 80.9 million hectare forest and tree area has become the seventh largest country of the world with around 350 of mammals and 1224 species of birds. In past 2 years o...

Animal Rights in India: The Unheard Pleas of India's Stray Sentinels

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"If A Man Aspires Towards A Righteous Life, His First Act Of Abstinence Is From Injury To Animals." -- Albert Einstein. Today the people are concerned for their own rights, and always ensure t...

Animal Trafficking In India

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Animal Trafficking in India AbstractThe activities of capturing, hunting, and using animals for commercial gain are called Animal Trafficking. There are several uses for which animals are abused....

A Critical Study on Prevention of Animal Cruelty in India

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Every country has their own national animal or bird and each nation use to represent animal as a symbol of their pride and prestige. In the ancient Hindus in India used to symbolise animals as ...

Legal Implication Of Conserving Endangered Species And Habitats

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In very simple words endangered species is that species which is likely or is in danger to become extinct soon in near future. Talking about India, it is a diverse country and is rich in flora...

Weaknesses In Existing Treaties-Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Anti-Wildlif...

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Wildlife trafficking is the act of trading non-domesticated plants and animals from their natural environment of being or raised under controlled and non-natural environment either as dead or l...

Animal Rights and Cruelty to Animals Act

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Four of the world's thirty-six biodiversity hotspots are found in India, the seventh-largest nation in the world and one of the most biodiverse regions in the planet. Animal protection and care...

Do Animals Have The Right To Life? And Ethics Of Animal Testing And Animal Ag...

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With the use of important rulings, this paper examines Article 21 of the Indian Constitution to determine whether it protects animals' right to life or not. If that is the case, what official a...

The Silent Exodus: Exploring Legal Avenues to Combat Wildlife Black Market Tr...

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"Humankind must learn to understand that the life of an animal is in no way less precious than our own." -- Paul Oxton Abstract Wildlife smuggling is a lucrative business. Wildlife crime like...

Paws And Laws: Is Banning Dogs In Public Places Legal In India?

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We live in a country, where dogs hold a special place in many hearts, they are a part of our families. The question of whether to ban dogs from public spaces sparks a multifaceted debate. This ...

Liability for Animals

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Liability for AnimalsIn this article we discuss about liabilities for animals & relevant case laws. Liability for keeping animlas 'ferae naturae'. Liability for keeping animals 'mansuetae natur...

Jurisprudential Status of Animals

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Animal rights jurisprudence refers to the legal framework that governs the rights of animals, and the legal obligations of humans towards animals. Animal rights jurisprudence has evolved over t...

An Analysis On Inhuman Practice Of Bestiality

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The Constitution of India in Article 51 A (g) states that it is the fundamental duty of every citizen to India to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers an...

A Comparison Of The Brazilian Wildlife Protection Law: Law No. 5,197/1967 Wit...

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"If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love."― Steve Irwin Wildlife protection laws are pie...

A Look Into: The Rights Of Animal

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This paper is going to talk about the rights of the animal and what actually is the reason we are considering the rights of the animal and also determines that are they getting their rights or ...

Beef In India: A Detailed Analysis

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"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home."- Groucho Marx Introduction: The term "beef" refers to dai...

Draft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Protection of animals is declared as a fundamental duty in the Indian Constitution and there are numerous animal welfare laws in India such as the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 and ...

History Of Legislation In Animal Laws After Independence

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India achieved its freedom from British colony in 1947 after a huge struggle and sacrifice of millions of people. It become free from all kind of restrictions and hardlife they had during that ...

The Rights of Animals

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Animal rights are legal or moral rights to which creatures are believed to be entitled. Numerous people agree that an animal's introductory right is to be free from any kind of atrocity and ill...

Legal Provisions Relating To Animal Poaching In India

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The history tells us about how early man has survived in his era by making animal hunting as his basic survival hobby. But looking forward in the present era things has changed drastically wher...

Protection Of Environment And Animals

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Every human being and animal have right to walk freely and live in its own way. everyone have a different thinking and want to do things in a different way and life different types of lives but...

Protection of Strays under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act,1960

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Whether it be the people mercilessly hurting stray animals, unethical use of animals by breeders, or abuse towards animals in the name of festivals, animal cruelty makes headlines around the wo...

Are Animal Rights As Important As Human Rights?

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YES! Animals feel the same way humans do, the only difference is humans have the privilege to express their emotions and feelings in the form of words whereas animals are unable to do so and su...

Animal Protection Laws under IPC and Constitution

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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."- Mahatma Gandhi Abstract: Whether it's the man who kills the neighbour's cat, the hoarder...

An Analysis Of Measures Taken to Resolve Human-Wildlife Conflicts in India

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Homo Sapiens have been known to meddle with every natural resource; biotic or abiotic to develop something which can be used to somehow fulfill their purposes. The growth and development of hum...

Case Comment on Wildlife v Ashok Kumar

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Factual Matrix of the case: Information was received by Inspector Vivek Tyagi of Special Cell of Delhi police accused persons namely Ashok Kumar S/o Sh. Hakumat Rai, Nand Kumar @ Nandu S/o Sh....

Justification Of The Wildlife Protection Amendment Act, 2002 With Further Foc...

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Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972Introduction: Wildlife (protection) act, 1972 was regulated for protection of plants and animals. Among other reforms, that Act established prohibitions and cate...

Bruno: Just Another Victim of Human Cruelty

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"Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves." - - Louis J. Camuti What is Ani...

Wildlife Protection Act 1972

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The Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 provides for the protection of the listed species of flora and fauna and creates a network of ecologically important protected areas. The law consists of 66 ...

Animals Rights: The Most Overlooked Topic

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India is to be known as a land where the all the diversities are being protected and worshipped all over the world. Animals are one of the best companions for human beings, but on the other hand ...

Animal Rights And Trophy Hunting

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Trophy hunting is the shooting of carefully selected animals for one's own pleasure. The animals hunted are frequently big animals such as rhinos, elephants, lions, pumas, and bears and this de...

The Conceptual Study Of Animal Rights Under Indian Law

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India, the seventh-largest country in the world, is one of the most bio-diverse regions of the world containing four of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots. It is home to animals ranging fro...

Animal Rights in India: A critical Analysis

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Before dealing with Animal rights, let us acknowledge what we mean by the term rights. Right can be defined and has been defined by many political philosophers and theorists in several ways ...

Animal Protection

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Animals are that large group of living beings which include us Human beings. But as we ourselves considers to be superior had always exerted some sort of power on other fellow animals. Animals ...

A Critical Analysis On Animal Welfare In India

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them-Dalai Lama Animal welfare denotes to the quality of life that experienced by animals and h...

Crime Against Environment and Wildlife- A Crime against Humanity

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The article focuses on crimes that are against environment, with a close emphasis with law, it is meant to understand what law has to do with environment, especially when there is damage caused...

Procedure For Trial For Offence Of Hunting Wild Animals

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The relation between man & nature is well described by William Wordsworth in his poem Written in Early Spring when he wrote, to her fair works did Nature link, the human soul that through m...

Legal Entity - Status to the entire Animal Kingdom

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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi(Father of the Nation) Since time, immemorial I...

Animals Right to Dignity and Fair treatment with respect to experimentation a...

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Over the years the Right to live with dignity has been protecting the individuals from all odds but now it is the time that it is extended to other beings as well, and by other beings, it must in...

Animal Cruelty And Laws for Protection of Animal Rights

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The idea of Humanity is no longer confined to man; it is beginning to extend itself to the lower animals, as in the past it has been gradually extended to savages and slaves - Henry S. Salt. ...

Is Humanity Still Alive?

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Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…..consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals-Milan Kundera This quote is not implementable after the happening of this ...

Strict Law to Prevent Animal Cruelty: The Need of an Hour

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Mahatma Gandhi said: The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protect...

Religion and the One Right Approach of Animal

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The recent incident in Malappuram Kerala, (India) on 27th May, 2020 where a pregnant elephant died after a local allegedly fed her a pineapple stuffed with crackers and later she died while stand...

Animal Right: Myth or Reality

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Mahatma Gandhi the father of our Nation once said: The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. The life of an animal is as precious as ours. It is our fundament...

Violence Against Animals: An Insight

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We can make indefinite number of laws but it is very difficult to implement them. We heard news on regular basis related to cruelty and inhumane incidents done by Humans. If we implement all the ...

Comparative Study Of Animals In India and USA With Special Reference To Aband...

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In Hindu culture, we are taught that the same soul that is in a human being is the same in all animals. So we have to treat everything equally. Thus we have to treat all the animals with grave re...

Rights of Animals under the Indian Legal System: Justifiable Amendable Curati...

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The posit of supremacy by man over nature has led to conflicts with nature. The burgeoning human population and its multifarious requisites are leading to an elevation in the conflicts between ma...

A Study On Crime Against Animals And Laws That Prevalent To Combat This Issue

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In this article we will get to know that how human being is affecting the animal’s life through his cruel action towards them. The animals do have the special rights given by the Central G...

Legal Personality of Animals

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In the modern legal systems around the globe, the legal personality has become an important topic of discussion. To be a legal person, it is required to be subject of rights and duties. The most ...

WPA AND PCA ACT and analysis and study of conviction rates under the act

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The Wild Bird and Animal Protection Act, 1912was enacted by the British government, which empowered the provincial government to declare the whole year or any part thereof as “close timeÃ...

Endangered Animals - A greed of Mankind

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India a home of various species and living organisms is one of the most suitable and protective biosphere of the world. It provides habitat for wild animals like Bengal tigers, deer, wolves, py...

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