The Rajya Sabha on December 05, 2025, introduced the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2025, to further amend the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.
The following has been stated namely: -
• Section 62 AA has been introduced namely: -
“Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act and in addition to the powers conferred upon the Chief Wild Life Warden under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 11, where the State Government is satisfied that an individual wild animal belonging to any of the species specified in Schedule I is, due to repeated and verifiable intrusion into human habitation, posing a persistent and grave threat to human life, or has caused loss of life or serious injury to any person, it may, by order in writing, declare such individual wild animal as vermin for the purposes of this Act and may also authorize any person to capture or destroy such animal in such manner as may be prescribed;
Provided that such order shall apply only to the specific individual wild animal identified through physical markings, tracking, or other reliable means, and shall not extend to the species as a whole”
• Section 62 AB has been introduced namely: -
“The Central Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute a Fund to be called the Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Fund for the purpose of supporting proactive and reactive measures to reduce human-wildlife conflict and there shall be credited thereto such sums of money, as the Central Government may consider necessary, after due appropriation made by parliament by law in this behalf”
[Bill No. XXXIV of 2025]
