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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Virus, outdated census method mar Gujarat’s lion numbers -Jacob Koshy

Virus, outdated census method mar Gujarat’s lion numbers -Jacob Koshy

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published Published on Jun 11, 2020   modified Modified on Jun 12, 2020

-The Hindu

Efficacy of vaccine for CDV not known, data unavailable

An outdated methodology and the true mortality from a virus affecting India’s lions dent the credibility of the Gujarat government’s claims on its lion population. In a press statement on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted results of the 2020 Asiatic Lion Census that put the number of lions at 674, a 28% rise from 2015 and which is a similar rise from 2010.

A wildlife biologist who closely works with the Union Environment Ministry on wildlife surveys said that the canine distemper virus (CDV) that killed at least 36 lions in Gir, Gujarat in 2018 had not ebbed. This was in spite of the government inoculating lions with an imported vaccine, details of whose efficacy were never publicised. “There have been several more deaths from the virus since January but no data about these have been shared,” the biologist told The Hindu.

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The Hindu, 11 June, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/virus-outdated-census-method-mar-gujarats-lion-numbers/article31806558.ece


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