Definitions Under Wildlife Act (Section 2)

1)

“animal” includes amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles, and their young, and also includes, in the cases of birds and reptiles, their eggs;

2)

“animal article” means an 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];

3)

Omitted 1991

4)

“Board means the Wildlife Advisory Board constituted under subsection (1) of Sec. 6;

5)

“captive animal” means any animal, specified in Schedule 1, Schedule II, Schedule III or Schedule IV, which is captured or kept or bred in captivity;

6)

Omitted 1991

7)

“Chief Wildlife Warden” means the person appointed as such under C1. (a) of sub-section (1) of Sec.4;

7A)

“Circus” means an establishment, whether stationary or mobile where animals are kept or used wholly or mainly for the purpose of performing tricks or manoeuvers;

8)

“closed area” means the area which is declared under sub-section (1) of Sec.37 to be closed to hunting;

9)

“Collector” means the Chief Officer in charge of the revenue administration of a district;

10)

“commencement of this Act”, in relation to – (a) a State, means commencement of this Act in that State. (b) any provision of this Act, means commencement of that provision in the concerned State;

11)

“dealer” means any person who carries on the business of buying and selling any captive animal, animal article, trophy, uncurled trophy, [9 meat or specified plant];

12)

“Director” means the person appointed as Director of Wildlife Preservation under Cl (a). of sub-section (1) of Sec. 3; [(12A) “Forest Officer” means the Forest Officer appointed under clause (2) of Sec.2 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (1016 of 1927);]

13)

Omitted 1991

14)

“Government property” means property, referred to in sec.39; [or sec. 17H12]

15)

“habitat” includes land, water, or vegetation which is the natural home of any wild animal;

16)

“hunting”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes, (a) capturing, killing, poisoning, snaring, and trapping or any wild animal and every attempt to do so, (b) driving any wild animal for any of purposes specified in sub clause (c) injuring or destroying or taking any part of the body of any such animal, or in the case of wild birds or reptiles, damaging the eggs of such birds or reptiles, or disturbing the eggs or nests of such birds or reptiles;

17)

“land” includes canals, creeks, and other water channels, reservoirs, rivers, streams and lakes, whether artificial or natural, [marshes and wetlands and also includes boulders and rocks; 13]

18)

“licence” means a licence granted under this Act;

18A)

“Live-stock” includes buffaloes, bulls, bullocks, camels, cows, donkeys, goats, horses, mules, pigs, sheep, yak and also includes their young;

19)

“manufacturer” means a manufacturer of animal articles;

20)

“meat” includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, fat and flesh, whether raw or cooked, of any wild animal other than vermin;

21)

“National Park” means an area declared, whether under sec.35. or sec.38 or deemed, under sub-section (3) of sec.66. to be declared, as a National Park

22)

“notification” means a notification published in the official Gazette;

23)

“permit” means a permit granted under this Act or any rule made thereunder;

24)

“Person” includes a firm;

25)

“prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

25A)

“recognised zoo” means a zoo recognised under section 38H;

25B)

“reserve forest” means the forest declared to be reserved by the State Government under sec.20. of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927);

26)

“sanctuary” means an area declared, whether under sec. [26(A)5 ] or sec 38, or deemed, under sub section (3) of Sec.66 to be declared, as a wildlife sanctuary;

27)

“specified plant “means any plant specified in Schedule VI;

28)

“special game” means any animal specified in Sec.II;

29)

“State Government”, in relation to a Union Territory, means the Administrator of that Union Territory appointed by the President under Art 239 of the Constitutions ;

30)

“taxidermy”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the curing, preparation or preservation of trophies;

30A)

“territorial waters” shall have the same meaning as in Sec.3. of Territorial waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 (80 of 1976);

31)

“trophy” means the whole or any part of any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, which has been kept or preserved by any means, whether artificial or natural, and includes, (a) rugs, skins, and specimens of such animals mounted in whole or in part through a process of taxidermy, and (b) antler, horn, rhinoceros horn, feather, nail, tooth, musk, eggs, and nests;

32)

“uncured trophy” means the whole or any part of any captive animal, other than vermin, which has not undergone a process of taxidermy, and includes a [freshly killed wild animal ambergris, musk and other animal products ];

33)

vehicle” means any conveyance used for movement on land, water or air, and includes buffalo, bull, bullock, camel, donkey, elephant, house, and mule;

34)

“vermin” means any wild animal specified in Sch.V;

35)

“weapon” includes ammunition, bows and arrows, explosives, firearms, hooks, knives, nets, poison, snares, traps, and any instrument or apparatus capable of anaesthetizing, decoying, destroying, injuring or killing an animal;

36)

“wild animal” means any animal found wild in nature and includes any animal specified in Schedule I, Schedule II, Schedule, IV or Schedule V, wherever found;

37)

“wildlife” includes any animal, bees butterflies, crustacean, fish and moths; and aquatic or land vegetation which forms part of any habitat;

38)

“Wildlife Warden” means the person appointed as such under C1. (b) of sub-section (1) of Sec.4;

39)

“zoo” means an establishment, whether stationary or mobile, where captive animals are kept for exhibition to the public but does not include a circus and an establishment of a licenced dealer in captive animals.