◾️Wildlife Protection Act 1972 was passed on August 21, 1972, but was later implemented on September 9, 1972.
• This act prohibits the capturing, killing, poisoning or trapping of wild animals.

🔶Aim
The act is aimed at strengthening the conservation of tigers and other endangered species by combating crimes against them.

🔶What does this act include?

* Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (WLPA) prohibits the injuring, destroying and removing any part of a wild animals body.
* In the case of wild birds and reptiles, the act forbids disturbing or damaging their eggs.

* WLPA is also against taxidermy, which is the preservation of a dead wild animal as a trophy, or in the form of rugs, preserved skins, antlers, horns, eggs, teeth, and nails.

◾️The Natal Indian Congress (NIC), founded by Mahatma Gandhi, was an organization formed with the aim of fighting discrimination against Indians in South Africa.

◾️More about Natal Indian Congress

- Mahatma Gandhi was the founder & Honorary Secretary of Natal Indian Congress.

- Abdoola Hajee Afam Jhaveri (Dada Abdulla) was elected as the prescient of the organization. 

- Membership of the Congress was restricted to the trading class since a minimum of £3 annual subscription was a condition of membership.

- According to Mahatma Gandhi, in less than a month, about three hundred Hindus, Muslims, Parsees, and Christians became members.

- During its formative years, the NIC introduced many early petitions for changes to proposed discriminatory legislation.

- In the 1960s, the organisation became inactive due to the growing state repression and the banning of its leaders.

- It later allied itself with the African National Congress.