{"id":225797,"date":"2023-02-09T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=225797"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:29:50","slug":"wildlife-institute-of-india-working-on-vaccine-to-reduce-vermin-populations-awaits-further-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wildlife-institute-of-india-working-on-vaccine-to-reduce-vermin-populations-awaits-further-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Institute of India working on vaccine to reduce \u2018vermin\u2019 populations, awaits further funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cWildlife Institute of India working on vaccine to reduce \u2018vermin\u2019 populations, awaits further funding\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Down To Earth <\/b>on <b>9th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wildlife Institute of India(WII) is working to develop immuno-contraceptive measures for population management of Vermins and other species that have become problematic for humans in many parts of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Vermin species?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vermin-politics-human-wildlife-conflict-mitigation-needs-to-be-based-on-science-not-historical-biases\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who can declare Vermin species?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wildlife (Protection) Act,1972 states that the central government can declare any wild animal other than those specified in Schedule I and Part II of Schedule II to be vermin. The centre can even declare vermin for any period\/in any area as may be specified.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the project being developed to manage Vermins and other species?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change(MoEF&amp;CC) approved the 10-year research project for developing immuno-contraception in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the project, the Wildlife Institute of India(WII) is studying immuno-contraceptive measures for population management of four species namely elephant, wild pig, Rhesus macaque and Nilgai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These measures will be able to reduce reproduction in the species by making the female sterile. This will be done by injecting a vaccine made from a hormone derived from the ovary lining of pigs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWildlife Institute of India working on vaccine to reduce \u2018vermin\u2019 populations, awaits further funding\u201d published in Down To Earth on 9th February 2023. What is the News? The Wildlife Institute of India(WII) is working to develop immuno-contraceptive measures for population management of Vermins and other species that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wildlife-institute-of-india-working-on-vaccine-to-reduce-vermin-populations-awaits-further-funding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wildlife Institute of India working on vaccine to reduce \u2018vermin\u2019 populations, awaits further funding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-225797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703902114},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}