Legal Protection of the Conservation of Biodiversity in India – A Socio Legal Study | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Biodiversity is the basis for the life of the all and its link and connection with different aspects of the life is so difficult to understand that even the scientists has not yet find out the all mysteries. However, the importance of biodiversity is beyond measure. Threats to biodiversity is also a results of an immediate human activity like hunting or indirect human activities like habitat destruction or modification due to industrial or agricultural activities, but the casualty is the capacity of ecosystems to regenerate themselves. The need and urgency ot conservation of biodiversity has always been a topic of primary concern for international regime and therefore the issue has been addressed in several international conventions. It’s universally recognised that conservation of biodiversity could be a ‘common concern of mankind’ and needs to be treated as an integral a part of the de elopement process. Over a decade has elapsed since the enactment of Biological Diversity Act 2002 in India. It’s appropriate now to look at the effect of the legal protection provided under the said Act inter alia and suggest the required improvement of this legal protection for the aim of conservation of biological diversity in India. In this background the current research work has been undertaken. The study will examine the recent legal development on the topic at international level. In the light of the international legal development the study has examined the efficacy of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 in the field of conservation of biodiversity and to suggest the mandatory improvement on Indian law for conservation of biodiversity. To conduct the current study various Indian rules, reports, journals, articles, periodicals, books the study has explored various international documents, debates, conventions moreover as declarations.