Guest guest Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?HelpWlpa Calling all you good people. Here is your chance to 'Help the Indian Wildlife Protection Act' (WLPA)so that it helps in safeguarding the environment, wildlife and destitute animals of India. The WLPA shall be placed before the Indian Parliament in a few days and all our hopes which have been forwarded as recommendations to the Government by the expert committee can ONLY succeed if we all come forward and push this together. Please read the petition below and sign/ circulate as fast as you can, we do not have much time. Smt.Maneka Gandhi, former Union Minister for Environment & Forests and presently a Member of the Indian Parliament has in the past been instrumental in shaping this act with many powerful amendments during her tenure. She is also one of the few leaders who has has used this act in the best possible way engaging the best of lawyers so that the offenders can be booked. But it seems that the present law is just not enough and perhaps this could be one of the BIGGEST reason that the conviction rate in wildlife crimes in India is pathetic. In a recent interview to NDTV, Ms. Belinda Wright, Executive Director of WPSI and someone who has been after the Tiger poachers for many decades expressed her worst fear. She said that Mr. Sansar Chand, the most dreaded criminal of India who has been responsible for the largest number of Tiger/ Leopard poaching and other wildlife crimes, presently imprisoned in an Indian jail may soon go free !! This may happen due to some technical loopholes in the system. But this can stop. And such can only happen when the recommendations made by the expert committee that includes Ms. Belinda Wright, Mr. Valmik Thapar, Mr. Mahendra Vyas, Mr. Praveen Kumar are heard and India adopts their recommendations Well it is these loopholes that we need to fill up. If we do not act now, all the efforts of the Police, the Wildlife Department, the barefooted forest guard, the dare devil investigators and all who have been fighting wildlife crime can go into TRASH. Let us help them help the WLPA, let us help India ! Do spare a moment, sign the petition below by visiting the link: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?HelpWlpa regards, Azam Siddiqui -- http://www.stopelephantpolo.com http://www.freewebs.com/azamsiddiqui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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