The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has launched a project for undertaking contraceptive measures for four species of wild animals- elephants, wild boars, monkeys and blue bulls. The Finance Ministry has approved of the project. The only hitch that remains a court order which prevents them from implementing the birth control plan. The project will first begin in Uttarakhand and will be extended to the other States.
According to a report tabled in Parliament, 494 person’s were killed by elephants last year alone and between 2014 and March 2019, 2,398 people died due to elephant attacks in the country. West Bengal accounts for the maximum number of deaths. Professor Raman Sukumar , an elephant expert and ecologist, said that immunocontraception is a technology that uses a female animal’ s immune system to build a protein around the egg that prevents it from fertilising.
