law: Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972
  2. Definitions 
  In this Act, unless
  
  the context otherwise requires,-
  (1) "animal"
  
  includes amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles and their young, and also
  
  includes, in the cases of birds and reptiles, their eggs;
  (2) "animal
  
  article" means an article made from any captive animal or wild animal,
  
  other than vermin, and includes an article or object in which the whole or any
  
  part of such animal 5[has been used, and ivory imported into India
  
  and an article made there from];
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  (4) "Board"
  
  means the Wild Life Advisory Board constituted under sub-section (1) of section
  
  6;
  (5) "captive
  
  animal" means any animal, specified in Schedule I, Schedule II, Schedule
  
  III or Schedule IV, which is captured or kept or bred in captivity;
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  (7) "Chief Wild
  
  Life Warden" means the person appointed as such under clause (a) of
  
  sub-section (1) of section 4;
   7  [(7A)
  
  "circus" means an establishment, whether stationary or mobile, where
  
  animals are kept or used wholly or mainly for the purpose of performing tricks
  
  or manoeuvres;]
  (8) "closed
  
  area" means the area which is declared under sub-section (1) of section 37
  
  to be closed to hunting;
  (9)
  
  "Collector" means the chief officer in charge of the revenue
  
  administration of a district;
  (10)
  
  "commencement of this Act", in relation to-
  (a) a State, means
  
  commencement of this Act in that State,
  (b) any provision of this Act, means the
  
  commencement of that provision in the concerned State;
  (11)
  
  "dealer" means any person who carries on the business of buying and
  
  selling any captive animal, animal article, trophy, uncured trophy 5[meat
  
  or specified plant];
  (12) "Director"
  
  means the person appointed as Director of Wild Life Preservation under clause
  
  (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3;
   7  [(12A) "Forest
  
  Officer" means the Forest Officer appointed under clause (2) of section 2
  
  of the Indian Forest Act, 1927;]
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  (14) "Government
  
  property" means any property referred to in section 39; 7[or
  
  section 17H;]
  (15)
  
  "habitat" includes land, water or vegetation which is the natural
  
  home of any wild animal;
  (16)
  
  "hunting", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions,
  
  includes,-
  (a) capturing, killing, poisoning, snaring and
  
  trapping of any wild animal and every attempt to do so,
  (b) driving any wild
  
  animal for any of the purposes specified in sub-clause (a),
  
  
  (c) injuring or destroying or taking any part of the body of any such animal
  
  or, in the case of wild birds or reptiles, damaging the eggs of such birds or
  
  reptiles or disturbing the eggs or nests of such birds or reptiles;
  (17) "land"
  
  includes canals, creeks and other water channels, reservoirs, rivers, streams
  
  and lakes, whether artificial or natural, 5[marshes and wetlands and
  
  also includes boulders and rocks];
  (18)
  
  "license" means a license granted under this Act;
   7  [(18A) "live
  
  stock" includes buffaloes, bulls, bullocks, camels, cows, donkeys, goats,
  
  horses, mules, pigs, sheepĺs, yaks and also includes their young;]
  (19)
  
  "manufacturer" means a manufacturer of animal articles;
  (20) "meat"
  
  includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, fat and flesh, whether raw or cooked, of
  
  any wild animal, other than vermin;
  (21) "National
  
  Park" means an area declared, whether under section 35 or section 38, or
  
  deemed, under sub-section (3) of section 66, to be declared, as a National
  
  Park;
  (22)
  
  "notification" means a notification published in the Official
  
  Gazette;
  (23)
  
  "permit" means a permit granted under this Act or any rule made
  
  thereunder;
  (24)
  
  "person" includes a firm;
  (25)
  
  "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
   7  [(25A)
  
  "recognized zoo" means a zoo recognized under section 38H;
  (25B) "reserve
  
  forest" means the forest declared to be reserved by the State Government
  
  under section 20 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927);]
  (26)
  
  "sanctuary" means an area declared, whether under section 5[26A]
  
  or section 38, or deemed, under sub-section (3) of section 66, to be declared,
  
  as a wild life sanctuary;
   5  [(27) "specified
  
  plant" means any plant specified in Schedule VI;]
  (28) "special
  
  game" means any animal specified in Schedule II;
  (29) "State
  
  Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator of
  
  that Union territory appointed by the President under article 239 of the
  
  Constitution;
  (30)
  
  "taxidermy", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions,
  
  means the curing, preparation or preservation of trophies;
   7  [(30A)
  
  "territorial waters" shall have the same meaning as in section 3 of
  
  the Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other
  
  Maritime Zones Act, 1976 (80 of 1976);]
  (31) "trophy"
  
  means the whole or any part of any captive animal or wild animal, other than
  
  vermin, which has been kept or preserved by any means, whether artificial or
  
  natural, and includes-
  (a) rugs, skins and specimens of such animal
  
  mounted in whole or in part through a process of taxidermy, and
  (b) antler, horn, rhinoceros horn, hair,
  
  feather, nail, tooth, musk, eggs and nests;
  (32) "uncured
  
  trophy" means the whole or any part of any captive animal or wild animal,
  
  other than vermin, which has not undergone a process of taxidermy, and includes
  
  a 5[freshly killed wild animal, ambergris, musk and other animal
  
  products];
  (33)
  
  "vehicle" means any conveyance used for movement on land, water or
  
  air and includes buffalo, bull, bullock, camel, donkey, elephant, horse and
  
  mule;
  (34)
  
  "vermin" means any wild animal specified in Schedule V;
  (35)
  
  "weapon" includes ammunition, bows and arrows, explosives, firearms,
  
  hooks, knives, nets, poison, snares and traps and any instrument or apparatus capable
  
  of anaesthetizing, decoying, destroying, injuring or killing an animal;
  (36) "wild
  
  animal" means any animal found wild in nature and includes any animal
  
  specified in Schedule I, Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV or Schedule V,
  
  wherever found;
  (37) "wild
  
  life" includes any animal, bees, butterflies, crustacea, fish and moths;
  
  and aquatic or land vegetation which form part of any habitat;
  (38) "Wild Life
  
  Warden" means the person appointed as such under clause (b) of sub-section
  
  (1) of section 4;
   7  [(39) "Zoo"
  
  means an establishment, whether stationary or mobile, where captive animals are
  
  kept for exhibition to the public but does not include a circus and an
  
  establishment of a licensed dealer in captive animals.]