{"id":21861,"date":"2024-03-26T02:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21861"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:19:58","slug":"captive-elephant-rules-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/captive-elephant-rules-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Captive Elephant (Transfer or Transport) Rules, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Captive Elephants under the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Elephants are, according to the provisions of the WPA, a\u00a0Schedule 1 species, and therefore, be it wild or captive,\u00a0cannot be captured or traded under any circumstances.<\/li>\n<li>Section 12 of the Act\u00a0allows Schedule I animals to be translocated for \u2018special purposes\u2019 such as education and scientific research.<\/li>\n<li>They can also be\u00a0translocated for population management of wildlife without harming any wild animals and the collection of specimens for recognised zoos\/museums.<\/li>\n<li>Captive elephants, because of their historical role in forest management, timber transport, presence in estates of erstwhile royal families and in temple precincts for religious purposes can be owned and therefore\u00a0come under a special category. However,\u00a0strict rules guide the transfer\u00a0of such elephants.<\/li>\n<li>Section 40(2) of the WPA\u00a0prohibits the acquisition, possession, and transfer of a captive elephant without the written\u00a0permission of the Chief Wildlife Warden\u00a0(CWW) of the State.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Environment Ministry in 2021 brought in an\u00a0amendment that\u00a0allowed the transfer of elephants\u00a0for \u2018religious or any other purposes\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Captive Elephant (Transfer or Transport) Rules, 2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It lays down the procedure to be followed for the transfer of captive elephants\u00a0within a state or between two states.<\/li>\n<li>The notification\u00a0authorises the CWW of states and UTs\u00a0to permit or reject the transfer of captive elephants.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The CWW shall permit the inter and intra-State transfers\u00a0if the owner of the\u00a0elephant is no longer in a position to maintain it\u00a0or if\u00a0the animal will have a better upkeep than in the present circumstances.<\/li>\n<li>The transfer of captive elephants\u00a0won\u2019t be permissible\u00a0unless the genetic profile of the animal has\u00a0been entered in the electronic monitoring application of the MoEFCC (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change).<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0application for transfer of captive elephants should be\u00a0made to the deputy conservator of forests (DCF), having jurisdiction over the area where the elephant is registered.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0DCF will conduct an inquiry and\u00a0physical verification of the facility where the elephant is presently housed, and also the facility where the elephant is proposed to be housed and\u00a0obtain a certificate of a veterinary practitioner, and then\u00a0forward the details to the CWW,\u00a0who within seven days will accept or reject the transfer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an international agreement between governments. It aims to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten the survival of the species. It was drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of IUCN (The World Conservation Union). It entered into force in July 1975. Although CITES is legally binding on the Parties \u2013 in other words, they have to implement the Convention \u2013 it does not take the place of national laws. The CITES Secretariat is administered by UNEP and is located in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/what-are-the-new-rules-for-elephant-transfers-explained\/article67988618.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What are the new rules for elephant transfers? | Explained<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captive Elephant (Transfer or Transport) Rules, 2024 lays down the procedure to be followed for the transfer of captive elephants within a state or between two states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}