The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) has launched a project for undertaking ‘immunocontraceptive measures’ for population management of four species of wild animals.
About:
Animals covered: Project aims to control population of four species of wild animals — elephant, wild boar, monkey and blue bull (Nilgai).
Strategy: Immunocontraception is a technology that uses a female animal’s immune system to build a protein around the egg that prevents it from fertilising.
Regions covered: The project will begin in Uttarakhand and then be extended to other States.
Bodies involved:
The project has been launched by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC).
The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and National the Institute of Immunology (NII) have developed a protocol of immunocontraception.
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