Green Crimes in India with reference to Wildlife Crimes from the Green Criminology Perspective

The environment is a unified entity that constitutes living and non-living beings, supporting life by providing air, food, water and earth. Being earth’s rational dwellers, it is our utmost responsibility to preserve and protect the ecosystem. However, human beings, being anthropocentric in nature, always have a tendency to exploit mother nature, not only natural resources but also encroaching upon the other non- human beings, such as animals and wildlife How far wildlife crimes are effectively curbed in India? What are the major wildlife crimes in India and how India is trying to implement international obligations arising under international treaties? To what extent constitutional mandate is able to protect the wildlife under the Directive principles of state policy and Fundamental duties? The paper discusses the theories of criminology which helps to comprehend the green criminology. The Wildlife protection has been extensively dealt by the Indian judicial system not from anthropocentric view but also considered the ecocentric approach.