{"id":247092,"date":"2023-06-08T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=247092"},"modified":"2023-06-08T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T15:04:10","slug":"tackling-the-human-dog-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tackling-the-human-dog-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling the human-dog conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source-<\/strong> The post is based on the article \u201cTackling the human-dog conflict\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 8th June 2023.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Government policies and interventions. GS3- Environment<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Issues related to street dogs<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>Over the past few decades, the growing population of street dogs has posed increasing challenges for municipalities and cities across the country.<\/p>\n

The Prevention of Cruelty (Animal Birth Control) Rules 2023 rules that have been designed to address emerging challenges.<\/p>\n

What are the alternatives to ABC? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

First, there is culling.<\/strong> But, it is a cruel solution<\/strong>. Past such practices show that the dog population has bounced back time and again.<\/p>\n

Second is Confinement in pounds or shelters. <\/strong>But they are economically unviable and unsustainable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The room freed up on our streets because of round-ups and culling <\/strong>will be filled by dogs. It is because of abandonment, free-roaming and breeding pets and street dogs. This is no kind of solution.<\/p>\n

How 2023 rules on ABC address the resolve that shortcoming in earlier rules?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

ABC programmes are now being streamlined.<\/strong> The burden of its implementation<\/strong> will fall on the ABC monitoring committees<\/strong> at the State, district and municipality levels.<\/p>\n

The rules require updated infrastructure investments<\/strong> for the capture, housing, surgery and release<\/strong> of dogs. It requires specific processes<\/strong> to be recorded such as keeping and reporting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It focuses on procedures for responding to conflict situations.<\/strong> It requires the engagement of organisations<\/strong> to ensure that the standards of ABC are high.<\/p>\n

It calls for differentiation <\/strong>of street dogs from pet dogs to improve data collection and analysis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the way forward to tackle the menace of street dogs?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A scientific approach<\/strong> is required to tackle the street dog conflict and population issue.<\/p>\n

Social marketing and human behaviour change<\/strong> demands our attention too. Instead of attacking each other, there is a need for shared expertise and commitment<\/strong> to resolve complex societal problems.<\/p>\n

If there is no research on the benefits of ABC on dogs, we must put our money into it. If there are poor ABC programmes<\/strong>, organisations must take ownership and improve their standards <\/strong>through training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source- The post is based on the article \u201cTackling the human-dog conflict\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 8th June 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Government policies and interventions. GS3- Environment Relevance– Issues related to street dogs News- Over the past few decades, the growing population of street dogs has posed increasing challenges for municipalities and cities across… Continue reading Tackling the human-dog conflict<\/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":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-247092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698430339},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247092","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=247092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}