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Wildlife and Aquatic Law (2007)

The Wildlife and Aquatic law determines principles, regulations and measures on wildlife and aquatic life in nature to promote the sustainable regeneration and utilization of wildlife and aquatic, without any harmful impact on natural resources or habitats and to restrict anthropogenic pressure on decreasing species and the extinction of wildlife and aquatic, by encouraging people as a whole to understand and recognise the significance, with enhancing the conscientious love, care and treatment of animals. To engage in managing, monitoring, conserving, protecting, developing and utilizing wildlife and aquatic in sustainable manner. To guarantee plenteousness and richness of ecological natural equilibrium systems, to contribute in upgrading the condition of livelihoods for multi-ethnic people, which has the potential to develop and realise the national social-economic goals.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
Document reference # No 07/NA
Issuing agency/parties
  • National Assembly
Language
  • English
Formal type of document Law
Topics
  • Animals
  • Fishing fisheries and aquaculture
  • National parks and wildlife sanctuaries
License Creative Commons Attribution
Copyright No
Access and use constraints

No constraints specified

Status Adopted, validated, in effect
Version date (of draft) December 24, 2007
Adoption date/Enacted/Promulgation date/Signing date December 24, 2007
Effective/Enforced Date March 22, 2008
Short notes of change

This is a new law

Publication reference National Assembly No 07/NA Vientiane Capital, dated 24 December 2007
Links to source http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/legis/nofr/oeur/arch/lao/wildlife%20law_official%20translation.pdf
Date uploaded January 5, 2018, 17:53 (UTC)
Date modified December 16, 2019, 07:05 (UTC)