{"id":3727,"date":"2023-03-13T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:30:59","slug":"high-powered-committee-on-wild-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/high-powered-committee-on-wild-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Powered Committee on Wild Animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was <strong>initially constituted to oversee the transfer of captive wild elephants<\/strong> from the <strong>northeastern States<\/strong>. The <strong>ambit<\/strong> of the committee <strong>was earlier<\/strong> <strong>restricted to Tripura and Gujarat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>now have a wider responsibility<\/strong> and <strong>will<\/strong> <strong>cater to all wild animals<\/strong> in need of rehabilitation or rescue <strong>anywhere in India<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About High-Powered Committee on Wild Animals:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is set up under the <strong>chairmanship<\/strong> of former judge <strong>Justice Deepak Verma.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate<\/strong>: To consider <strong>approval, dispute, or grievance<\/strong> concerning the <strong>transfer or import of wild animals<\/strong> into India <strong>or their procurement<\/strong> <strong>or welfare<\/strong> <strong>by any rescue or rehabilitation center or zoo.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Other Members of the Committee:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director General of Forest<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Head of Project Elephant Division<\/strong> (MoEF)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Member Secretary<\/strong> (<strong>Central Zoo Authority<\/strong> of India)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chief Wild Life Warden(s) of the State(s)<\/strong> to which the issue relates will be co-opted as Members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Powers and Functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>All State and Central <strong>authorities shall report the seizure of wild animals<\/strong> or <strong>abandonment of captive wild animals to the Committee<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Committee shall be at <strong>liberty to recommend the transfer of ownership<\/strong> <strong>of<\/strong> <strong>captive animals<\/strong> or of seized wild animals <strong>to any willing rescue center<\/strong> or zoo for their immediate welfare, care, and rehabilitation.<\/li>\n<li>The Committee <strong>is free to conduct necessary checks <\/strong>and to undertake <strong>fact-finding exercises<\/strong> in any pending or future complaint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who is Chief WildLife Warden ?<\/h3>\n<p>The Chief Wildlife Warden (CWLW) is the statutory authority, under the Wildlife Protection Act, who heads the Wildlife Wing of the department and exercises complete administrative control over Protected Areas (PAs) within a state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/committee-to-oversee-transfer-and-import-of-captive-wild-animals-in-india-supreme-court\/article66606882.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Committee to oversee transfer and import of captive wild animals in India: Supreme Court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-Powered Committee on Wild Animals  will cater to all wild animals in need of rehabilitation or rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","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=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}