This Act provides for various matters relating to wildlife and forestry including: functions of the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, acquisition of land and rights, natural heritage areas, nature reserves and refuges, protection of flora, wild birds and wild animals, and regulation and control of wildlife dealing. Where the Minister considers it desirable for the purposes of the Wildlife Acts, 1976 and 2000, to acquire or take on lease any land or interest in land, the Min