Nepal’s National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, 2029 (1973)

Section 26: Punishment

Fifth Amendment

(1) Any person who illegally kills or injures, sells, purchases or transfers or obtains rhinoceros, tiger, elephant, musk deer, clouded leopard, snow leopard or bison, or keeps, purchases or sells rhinoceros horn or musk-pods or the fur of snow leopard as well as trophies of any other protected wildlife, shall be punished with a fine ranging from five lakhs to ten lakhs Nepali rupees or an imprisonment ranging from five years to fifteen years or both.

(2) Any person who kills or injures any other protected wildlife other than those mentioned in Sub-Section (1) shall be punished with a fine ranging from one lakh to five lakhs rupees, or face an imprisonment ranging from one year to ten years or both.

(3) Any person who hunts and kills or injures wildlife other than birds and fish inside a national park, strict nature reserve or wildlife reserve without obtaining a license shall be punished with a fine ranging from twenty thousand rupees and fifty thousand rupees or face imprisonment ranging from six months to one year or both.

(4) Any person who hunts and kills or injures protected birds shall be punished with a fine ranging from fifteen thousand rupees to thirty thousand rupees or face imprisonment ranging from three months to nine months or both.

(5) Any person who hunts and kills or injures birds other than protected birds inside a national park, strict nature reserve or wildlife reserve without obtaining a license shall be punished with a fine ranging from twenty thousand rupees to fifty thousand rupees, or face imprisonment ranging between six months and one year or both.

(6) Any person who commits an offense other than those mentioned in Sub Section (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5), in contravention of this Act or the Rules framed under the Act shall be punished with a fine up  ranging from twenty thousand rupees to fifty thousand rupees or one years imprisonment or both depending on the nature of the case.

Source:

National Law Commission. Government of Nepal. National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, 2029 (1973). Available at: http://www.lawcommission.gov.np/en/archives/category/documents/prevailing-law/statutes-acts/national-parks-and-wildlife-conservation-act-2029-1973

Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC). National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, 2029 (1973).

Pic: Logo of Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC), Nepal.