<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted for protection of plants and animal species . Before 1972, India only had five designated national parks . Among other reforms, the Act established schedules of protected plant and animal species; hunting or harvesting these species was largely outlawed . The Act provides for the protection of wild animals, birds and plants; and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto . It extends to the whole of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir which has its own wildlife act . It has seven schedules which give varying degrees of protection . Schedule I and part II of Schedule II provide absolute protection - offences under these are prescribed the highest penalties . Species listed in Schedule III and Schedule IV are also protected, but the penalties are much lower . Schedule V includes the animals which may be hunted . The specified endemic plants in Schedule VI are prohibited from cultivation and planting . The hunting to the Enforcement authorities have the power to compound offences under this Schedule (i.e. they impose fines on the offenders). Up to April 2010 there have been 16 convictions under this act relating to the death of tigers . </P> <P> The "Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972" was enacted by Parliament of India in 1972 . </P> <Ul> <Li> "animal" includes amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles, and their young ones, and also includes, in the cases of birds and reptiles, their eggs . </Li> <Li> "animal article" means an article made from any captive 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 an article made therefrom . </Li> <Li> "hunting" includes </Li> </Ul>

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