Wildlife Translocation – SOP of Supreme Court
SC SOP for Wildlife Translocation
SC Guidelines on Deer Relocation from AN Jha Deer Park
The draft comprehensive guidelines prepared by the Central Empowered Committee for future wildlife translocations, incorporating scientific methodology, identification and tagging protocols, procedural safeguards, transportation and veterinary requirements, ecological feasibility assessment, and a post-release monitoring framework in conformity with the applicable statutory regime and IUCN Guidelines, shall be examined by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and implemented, with such modifications as may be deemed appropriate, within a period of six months. These guidelines deserve to be, and shall be, imparted statutory status. A compliance report shall be submitted to this Court in respect of this direction.
Judgment dated 27.4.2026 of the Supreme Court of India in SLP (Civil) Nos.13374-13375 of 2025 of New Delhi Nature Society through Verhaen Khanna Vs. Director Horticulture DDA and others

