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Uttarakhand - wild animals
January 22 , 2018
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- The Uttarakhand government granted certification to the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) as part of its sterilization project to address man-animal conflict.
- For the first time in the country, ultrasound will be performed on wild animals to detect pregnancy before administering reproduction control method on them.
- At present, the machine will be used to detect pregnancy in wild boars, monkeys and elephants.
- The initiative is part of WII's 3-year project under the Union environment ministry, in collaboration with National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.
- If the animal is found pregnant, sterilization will not be performed and the animal is released in the wild undisturbed.
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