Joint initiative for wildlife conservation

Recently some state governments in India have been complaining about the negative impacts of overpopulation of some wildlife species due to successful conservation measures adopted over several decades. Species such as the Blue Bull or Nilgai, Spotted Deer, Wild Boar, Rhesus Monkey, Langur and Peacock have reached unsustainably high population level in some states and have been turning counterproductive causing severe damage to the standing crops. Bangladesh with similar climatic regimes and physical geography like India has seen some of these species become extinct in the wild such as the Blue Peafowl, Blue Bull etc. A joint initiative between the Indian and Bangladesh governments could help some of these surplus wildlife populations of India after veterinary inspection and successful quarantine period to suitable habitats in Bangladesh and help propagation of these beautiful species in different countries of South Asia.

Saikat Kumar Basu  
Lethbridge, AB, Canada