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Wildlife and Forest Amendment Bill, 2025
September 19 , 2025
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- Kerala Cabinet approved the draft Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
- It empowers the Chief Wildlife Warden to order the immediate killing of wild animals that attack and injure people in residential areas.
- It was first such amendment by any State in India to speed up action during wild animal attacks.
- It removes time-consuming procedures under the existing Central Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
- Provides for birth control and translocation of Schedule II wild animals if their population rises, without needing Union Government permission.
- Empowers the State Government to declare any Schedule II wild animal as vermin, a power previously held only by the Union Government.
- Once declared vermin, such animals can be killed by anyone, and their meat can be consumed.
- Despite repeated requests, the Centre has not declared wild boars’ vermin; the State Government appointed local self-government chairpersons as honorary wildlife wardens to control them.
- It proposes shifting Bonnet macaques (monkeys) from Schedule I to Schedule II.
- It also approved the draft Kerala Forest (Amendment) Bill, 2025, allowing the sale of sandalwood trees on private land through Forest Department outlets.
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