{"id":214612,"date":"2022-11-16T18:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=214612"},"modified":"2022-11-16T18:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:04:03","slug":"seven-exotic-primates-drugs-seized-in-southern-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/seven-exotic-primates-drugs-seized-in-southern-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven exotic primates, drugs seized in southern Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cSeven exotic primates, drugs seized in southern Assam\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 16th November 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The police in southern Assam have seized seven exotic primates and narcotic drugs worth \u20b910 crores.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Exotic Animals?<\/b><\/h5>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Exotic live species are animal or plant species moved from their original range (location) to a new one. These species are introduced to a new location most often by people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5><b>What do exotic animals include?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Government of India advisory, the phrase \u201cexotic live species\u201d includes \u201canimals named under the Appendices I, II and III of the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora\u201d and \u201cdoes not include species from the Schedules of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the guidelines issued for exotic species?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/declare-exotic-pets-avoid-prosecution-how-one-time-scheme-works\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the provisions related to the illegal trade of animals?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illegally traded exotic animals are confiscated under Section 111 of the Customs Act, 1962 which is read with the provision of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Foreign Trade Policy (Import-Export Policy) of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, Sections 48 and 49 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 prohibit trade or commerce in wild animals, animal articles or trophies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSeven exotic primates, drugs seized in southern Assam\u201d published in The Hindu on 16th November 2022 What is the News? The police in southern Assam have seized seven exotic primates and narcotic drugs worth \u20b910 crores. What are Exotic Animals? Exotic live species are animal or plant&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/seven-exotic-primates-drugs-seized-in-southern-assam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seven exotic primates, drugs seized in southern Assam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-214612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704756471},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}