{"id":240467,"date":"2023-05-01T19:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240467"},"modified":"2023-05-02T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:05:43","slug":"stray-dogs-and-poor-waste-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stray-dogs-and-poor-waste-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray dogs and poor waste management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cStray dogs and poor waste management\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on 1st May 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS1- Urbanisation, GS 3 \u2013 Human \u2013 Wildlife Conflict<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– issue of Stray dogs in urban areas<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– In April, a 65-year-old woman in Srinagar was attacked by street dogs outside her home. A garbage collection point was situated in front of her house.<\/p>\n

How does poor solid waste management contribute to dog bites?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The ability of a city to support a species is determined by the availability of food and shelter. Free-ranging dogs, in the absence of these facilities, are scavengers. <\/strong>They search around for food, and eventually look for garbage dumping sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A population boom<\/strong> in Indian cities has contributed to a staggering rise in solid waste. Indian cities generate more than 1,50,000 metric tonnes of urban solid waste every day. <\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a United Nations Environment Program 2021 report,<\/strong> an estimated 931 million tonnes of food<\/strong> was wasted in 2019. Indian homes on average generated 50 kg of food waste per person.<\/p>\n

This waste often serves as a source of food<\/strong> for hungry and free-roaming dogs. They move towards densely-populated areas<\/strong> in cities, such as urban slums which are usually located next to garbage dumping sites and landfills.<\/p>\n

Urban dogs are believed to have a distinct set of traits as compared to rural dogs. They have learnt to develop survival techniques<\/strong> in hostile urban environments.<\/p>\n

What are some statistics about stray dog population and dog bites in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Cities have witnessed a sharp increase in the stray dog population<\/strong>. As per the official 2019 livestock census<\/strong>, it stood at 1.5 crore.<\/strong> However, independent estimates peg the number to be around 6.2 crore. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of dog bites<\/strong> has simultaneously doubled between 2012 and 2020. India has the highest rabies burden in the world. It accounts for a third of global deaths <\/strong>caused due to the disease.<\/p>\n

How unplanned urbanisation is linked to the stray dogs problem?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2015, a study conducted in 10 Indian metro cities found a strong link<\/strong> between human population, the amount of municipal and food waste generated, and the number of stray dogs in the cities.<\/p>\n

It argued that the present mode of urbanisation and paradigm of development <\/strong>promotes urban sprawls, slums, and disparity. With the development of cities, managing solid waste <\/strong>has become a daunting challenge. It is aiding the proliferation of stray dogs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There may be a correlation between urbanisation and solid waste production<\/strong>. Weak animal birth control programmes, insufficient rescue centres,and poor waste management<\/strong>, result in a proliferation of street animals in India.<\/p>\n

Most landfills and dumping sites<\/strong> are located on the peripheries of cities, next to slums and settlement colonies. Thus, the disproportionate burden of dog bites may also fall on people in urban slums.<\/p>\n

A study published in 2016 found that the prevalence of dog bites was higher in urban slums than rural slums. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cStray dogs and poor waste management\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 1st May 2023. Syllabus: GS1- Urbanisation, GS 3 \u2013 Human \u2013 Wildlife Conflict Relevance– issue of Stray dogs in urban areas News– In April, a 65-year-old woman in Srinagar was attacked by street dogs outside her… Continue reading Stray dogs and poor waste management<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10164,11485,10498],"class_list":["post-240467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-solid-waste-management","tag-stray-dog-issue","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240467","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}