While the Pune forest department is looking at sterilisation of leopards to manage its rising population as well as human-leopard conflict, wildlife experts and top wildlife veterinarians have called the idea "unfeasible and a logistical nightmare". "In case they opt for sterilisation of female leopards, which might show success in controlling the future population scientifically, trapping leopards for the procedure would not be easy. "The forest department should ideally try immune contraception, which involves injecting contraceptive vaccine that leads an animal to become infertile temporarily and its effect wanes out after two-and-a-half to three years," he said. "Forest department should think of staff capacity building, setting up leopard rescue teams, granting quick compensation and more importantly create constant awareness on co-existing with leopards in villages that report conflict regularly," he said. Vets SuggestThe forest department should ideally try immune contraception, which involves injecting contraceptive vaccine that makes an animal to infertile temporarily

Source: dna May 08, 2019 00:56 UTC