---
title: "Wildlife Law"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/environmental-and-energy-law-en/wildlife-law-en"
field: "Environmental & Energy Law"
description: "Wildlife law in Georgia: ecosystem protection, licensing, the Red List and protected areas. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Wildlife Law

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/environmental-and-energy-law-en/wildlife-law-en

Wildlife law in Georgia is one of the most important parts of the environmental protection law: it covers the protection of natural ecosystems, the use of wild flora and fauna resources, the regime of endangered species, and the system of protected areas. On this page you will find a complete description of these four layers and of what each of them requires from the subject of activity.

## Protection of Natural Ecosystems

Natural ecosystems, landscapes, and territories must be protected from pollution, disturbance, damage, degradation, depletion, and destruction. This general goal is given concrete force by a list of objects subject to protection: the sea coastal zone; wetlands, springheads, the sources of water bodies and rivers, glaciers, caves; subalpine and floodplain forests; valuable forest massifs; green zone forests; sanitary protection zones and territories.

Any activity connected with the use and management of natural ecosystems, landscapes, and territories, and their management regime, is carried out taking into account the norms and requirements of environmental protection, while the matters connected with their use and management — including land use planning and zoning — are determined by Georgian legislation. This means that any project impacting wild nature stands before a double check: against the goal of protecting the ecosystem and against the regulation of use.

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### How is the removal of wild flora and fauna resources carried out?

It is strictly limited and subject to licensing; the only exception is timber preparation under the right granted by an auction of the forest management body.

### What are the Red List and the Red Book?

Forms of registration of wild animals and plants under the threat of extinction; the procedure for compiling them is determined by legislation.

### What are the categories of protected areas?

State reserve, national park, natural monument, managed reserve, protected landscape, multiple use area; categories of the international network are also admissible.

### Who creates a protected area?

Protected areas are created by decision of the Parliament of Georgia.