Unconstitutional Act
Under WLPA, people are not free to defend themselves against marauding animals as even driving them out of their homes and crop fields needs official permission. Yet the Indian Penal Code, sections 100 and 103 sanction voluntarily causing of death or of any other harm to the wrong-doer if: {1} An assault by the wrong-doer may reasonably cause the apprehension that death or grievous hurt will be the consequence of such assault {2} If the offence involves the wrong-doer committing house or property trespass or robbery. Wild pigs have on occasion killed people, they regularly trespass on farmers’ properties and rob him of his produce. Elephants do the same, and tigers kill people and rob farmers of their livestock and dogs. Two personal friends of mine, a retired senior police officer and a retired High Court judge have told me that WLPA is clearly not valid constitutionally.
Wildlife management globally
No country other than India bans hunting outside National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries or Game Reserves. Hunting of some endangered species like wolf may be banned everywhere, but even that is not universal and, in the US, hunting of wolves is actively encouraged with a bounty in the state of Alaska. Australia has a system of positive incentives. Australian sheep ranch owners shoot kangaroos as competitors of sheep. Government asks them for bids as to how much they expect to be paid in return for permitting a certain number of kangaroos to exist on their ranches, accepts bids of those
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