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ACT XIV OF 2014 ACT XIV OF 2014 BALOCHISTAN WILDLIFE (PROTECTION, PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT) ACT, 2014 An Act to provide protection, preservation, conservation, sustainable and management to the Wildlife, and establishment and management of protection areas in the Province of Balochistan. [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 28th March, 2014] CHAPTER VII PROTECTED AREAS 34. Designation, planning and management of protected areas.---(1) The Government may designate any suitable area, by notification in the official Gazette, in any of the management categories of Protected Areas listed hereafter with clear objectives and clear boundaries, after consultation with local communities and other stakeholders, especially those who are likely to be impacted adversely. (2) The Department shall-- (a) demarcate boundaries of the Protected Area clearly in such a manner as appropriate; (b) maintain an updated map with clear boundaries in the office of the Manager of a Protected Area; and (c) develop, update and implement a management plan of each Protected Area through participatory planning and management, especially involving local communities. (3) All Protected Areas in the Province, with the exception of Private Game Reserves and Community Game Reserves, shall be managed by the Department. (4) The designation of a Protected Area is for long term. However, a Protected Area may be re-designated in another management category purely in the interest of enhanced conservation. (5) A Protected Area shall be managed for its objectives in accordance with a scientifically sound management plan. (6) The Department shall not lease out any state owned land within any Protected Area for any purpose which contradicts its management. (7) The provision for access roads, construction of any building or developing any infrastructure and provision of any facilities and a amenities for the local communities and visitors within or near a Protected Area may be so made, as not to impair its conservation value or management objectives. In this regard, development of any infrastructure, facility or amenity shall be subject to Initial Environmental Examination (IEE), as the case may be, to safeguard against any adverse impact. (8) In all Protected Areas, no person shall-- (a) introduce any exotic, invasive or alien species of flora or fauna or GMO provided that the owner of a Private Game Reserve may keep suitable exotic species of game animals with permission from the authorized officer and under such conditions as may be prescribed; (b) re-introduce any wild animal or plant species without a credible feasibility study and approval of the Department; (c) pollute and poison water or divert it for cultivation or any other use; (d) cause fire; (e) encroach any land or remove, deface or shift any boundary marks; (f) litter or burn waste; (g) damage, vandalize, alter, counterfeit, deface or displace boundary marks, enclosures, transects, infrastructure, visitor facilities, water points or any such other structure or facility found or created in a Protected Area; (h) store or dump agricultural chemicals; solid, industrial and hospital waste; and explosives and hazardous substances; (i) let the domestic sewerage or industrial effluents into; (j) quarry stones; explore and exploit oil and gas, mine; undertake blasting or any other development work that is not compatible with the management objectives of a Protected Area and is prohibited therein; (k) do writing, inscription, carving, disfiguring, defacing, painting, chalking, advertising on trees, buildings, rocks and other natural surfaces; (l) undertake vehicle racing and other sports that are likely to have adverse effect and use transport, roads and routes in the sensitive areas, which are closed to visitors and/or local people; (m) play musical records, instruments and radio or make loud noise; (n) enter in the Core Zone and sensitive areas, which are closed to visitors, notwithstanding whether the same are signposted or not; (o) do any other act that the Government may decide to prohibit in any management category of or in any individual Protected Area at any time and notify the same in the official Gazette; and (p) No organization, outfit or individual shall conduct any research in the Government Managed Protected Areas, without prior permission of an authorized officer. (9) No person shall do any act that is prohibited in the specific management category of Protected Areas as contained in sections 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46