‘Immunocontraceptive measures’ for wild animals

 

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) has launched a project.

• Support also has taken from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and National the Institute of Immunology (NII).

About the Project

• The project aims to control the population of four species of wild animals.
• Species include- elephant, wild boar, monkey and blue bull (Nilgai).
• It is a pilot project and will begin in Uttarakhand.
• Only hitch for using (immunocontraception) on elephants is that there is a court injunction.

 

Immunocontraceptive

• Immunocontraception is a technology that uses a female animal’s immune system to build a protein around the egg that prevents it from fertilizing.
• Birth-control method implementation in India will not be a simple task.

 

Rising Human-Animal conflict

• Human-animal conflict has emerged as a major challenge in managing wildlife in the country.
• Human-elephant conflict causes the maximum number of causalities every year

 

Source: The Hindu

 

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