{"id":68699,"date":"2020-08-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=68699"},"modified":"2020-07-30T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T04:29:50","slug":"sindh-assembly-bill-protect-500-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-assembly-bill-protect-500-species.html","title":{"rendered":"Sindh Assembly passes bill to protect over 500 wildlife species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sukkur: The Sindh Assembly passed the Sindh Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation, and Management Act 2020 to ensure the protection of over 500 species of wildlife in the province, according to a news source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-first-wildlife-museum-swd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh\u2019s first wildlife museum inaugurated<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This bill covers 326 bird species, 107 species of crawling animals, and 82 species of other classifications, according to the Chief Minster\u2019s Special Assistant on Wildlife Mir Bangul Khan Mahar. He also revealed that this bill had been drafted through an international agreement and was an update on the previous law passed back in 1972, where only 45 species were granted protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this new bill, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wildlife-department-takes-measures-to-protect-fauna-amid-coronavirus-outbreak.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wildlife <\/a>department will be able to launch FIRs directly, conduct arrests without warrant, and impose fines on offenders. In addition, it will be allowed to conduct investigations along the pattern of a civil court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wildlife-quarantine-facility-lakki-marwat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wildlife department sets up wildlife quarantine facility in Lakki Marwat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this new law, sharing pictures of hunted animals from these species will incur a fine of PKR 500,000, along with a six-month imprisonment. An apolitical body called the Sindh Council for Conservation has also been formed to implement this legislation effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sukkur: The Sindh Assembly passed the Sindh Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation, and Management Act 2020 to ensure the protection of over 500 species of wildlife in the province, according to a news source. Read: Sindh\u2019s first wildlife museum inaugurated This bill covers 326 bird species, 107 species of crawling animals, and 82 species of other classifications, according to the Chief Minster\u2019s Special Assistant on Wildlife Mir Bangul Khan Mahar. He also revealed that this bill had been drafted through an international agreement and was an update on the previous law passed back in 1972, where only 45 species were granted protection. With this new bill, the wildlife department will be able to launch FIRs directly, conduct arrests without warrant, and impose fines on offenders. In addition, it will be allowed to conduct investigations along the pattern of a civil court. Read: Wildlife department sets up wildlife quarantine facility in Lakki Marwat Under this new law, sharing pictures of hunted animals from these species will incur a fine of PKR 500,000, along with a six-month imprisonment. An apolitical body called the Sindh Council for Conservation has also been formed to implement this legislation effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":59970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[17471,21295],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-sindh-wildlife","9":"tag-wildlife-department","10":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bill passed in SIndh to protect 500 wildlife species - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Sindh Assembly has passed a bill to protect over 500 wildlife species in the province. 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