Author: Swati Pandey

I’m Swati Pandey, a penultimate-year law student at Presidency University, Bangalore, with a strong interest in Intellectual Property Laws and Property Disputes. I’m particularly drawn to how legal frameworks balance innovation, creativity, and ownership rights, and I aim to deepen my understanding through practical exposure and research in these areas.

Introduction The Centre for Environmental Law, WWF-I Vs. Union of India and Others[1] It was a public interest petition filed in 1995 by the World-Wide Fund for Nature-India, a premier wildlife conservation institution. The writ petition brought to the notice of the Supreme Court of India the rapid degradation taking place in protected areas, assigning the non-implementation of the provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as the primary cause for this degradation. The Petitioners sought a direction to the Respondents, i.e. the Union government, State governments, and their respective Collectors, to discharge the duty entrusted to them under Sections…

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