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Centre unveils new rules to regulate exotic animals trade
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- Environment ministry’s forest division introduced new rules to regulate import & export of ‘exotic wildlife species’
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- Currently, it is the Directorate-General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce, that monitors such trade.
- The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau is an organisation that is tasked with monitoring illegal trade
- New rules
(1) owners and possessors of such animals and birds must register their stock with the Chief Wildlife Warden of their States
(2) Officials of the Wildlife Department will prepare an inventory of such species and have the right to inspect the facilities of such traders to check conditions of these plants and animals
(3) stockists will have six months to declare their stock
(4) ‘exotic live species’ includes animals named under Appendices I, II and III of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) of Wild Fauna and Flora.
(5) It will not include species from the Schedules of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972
- CITES
(1) The CITES is part of a multilateral treaty that includes plant, animals and birds under varying categories of threat of extinction
(2) It will be jointly protected by members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
(3) India is a signatory to this treaty
- Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ’s first global report on the illegal wildlife trade described wildlife trafficking as a “global threat”, which also has links with other organised crimes