The salient features of Wild Life Protection Act. 1972.

This Act provides for the protection of Wild animals, birds and plants and for matters connected there with or ancillary or incidental thereto. It extends to the whole of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir animal includes amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles, and their young, and also includes, in the cases of birds and reptiles, their eggs. animal article means article made from any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, and includes an article or object in which the whole or any part of such animal [has been used and ivory imported into India and an article made therefrom. hunting, includes, capturing, killing, poisoning, snaring, and trapping or any wild animal and every attempt to do so, driving any wild animal for any of purposes specified in sub clause injuring or destroying or taking any part of the body of any animal.