Leopard sterilisation in India: The ecological and ethical costs of anthropocentric wildlife management
Pranay Arora · 2026
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Description
Pranay Arora writes on India's plan to use immune contraceptives to curb leopard numbers near towns and farms. Clashes between people and leopards have grown, and the state has turned to sterilisation as a control tool. The move has split wildlife experts, officials, and local groups.
Arora weighs the costs of that choice for leopard ecology and for ethics. Managing a wild species mainly for human ease treats people as the sole stakeholders in shared land. The piece sets out those harms in plain terms drawn from the debate so far. It then urges coexistence paths that count both humans and wildlife as parties with a stake. Such paths, the author argues, fit shared socio-ecological systems better than population control alone.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pranay Arora |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |