11-06-2025
Centre rejects state's request to kill wildlife
Kochi: Ministry of environment and forests (MOEF) rejected the state govt's demand to grant permission to kill wild animals that cause damage to crops and property and pose a threat to human life.
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The ministry issued the official intimation in this regard to the state govt on Wednesday.
The LDF govt approached the ministry with this demand following the death of a Kalikavu native in a tiger attack in the Nilambur assembly constituency, which is going to a byelection on June 19.
The notice stated that the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 provides for the conservation, protection and management of wildlife to ensure the ecological and environmental security of the country.
"Wild animals are listed in Schedule I considering their ecological and cultural status. Such species are often threatened or endangered and therefore, listing them in Schedule I accords them the highest degree of protection against hunting," reads the letter to state forest department.
The official intimation also specified the prohibition on killing wild animals in Schedule I and II except in certain exceptional circumstances.
Regarding the demand for declaring wild boars as vermin, the letter states, "Site-specific management of the population of such animals is necessary to maintain a healthy ecosystem instead of having generic provisions of declaring species vermin."
