Animal Culling India

Over 69,000 birds including ducks and chicken were culled in the districts of Alappuzha and Kottayam to contain the H5N8 strain of bird flu, Kerala Animal Husbandry Minister K Raju said on Wednesday.

The Gujarat Animal Husbandry Department on Tuesday decided to cull around 700 birds kept at an animal care centre near the city after some of the Guinea fowls brought Ahmedabad from Mumbai were found to be infected with Avian Influenza, commonly known as Bird flu.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said an impression should not be created that human life has lesser value than that of a dog but stressed that stray dogs can be killed only in accordance with the Animal Birth Control Rules.

Gwalior Zoo has decided to cull its flock of painted storks after it was found that the 15 birds which had died in the last 72 hours had avian influenza.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today reached out to animal rights activists opposed to his government's new policy of culling dangerous stray dogs.

A day after the Kerala cabinet said it will cull 'dangerous' stray dogs in the state, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has offered an alternative. Ms Gandhi, who is a well-known animal rights activist has suggested that the Kerala administration should sterilize stray dogs, rather than kill them.

Kerala government's move to cull violent street dogs has drawn flak from animal rights groups with People For Animals saying it would take legal recourse if government takes steps to kill stray canines in violation of Supreme Court order.

The Supreme Court will hear a plea challenging three government notifications declaring as vermin nilgais, wild boars and monkeys, thereby paving the way for their culling in Bihar, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

The Supreme Court is likely to commence final hearing today on a bunch of petitions challenging the mass culling of stray dogs.

Kerala's plans to cull street dogs deemed to be dangerous has run into opposition. In addition to online campaigns urging people to boycott Kerala tourism and products, protests were held in cities around India.

The Telangana government has culled 51,888 poultry birds at Thorur village in Rangareddy district, the "epicentre" of the avian influenza outbreak.

Nearly 2.60 lakh ducks had been culled since November 26 after the outbreak of H5NI virus in three affected districts of Kerala, where no person was found infected, Minister for Animal Husbandry K P Mohanan said in Thiruvananthapuram today.

India has found two outbreaks of a highly contagious bird flu virus in Kerala, prompting the authorities to cull more than 200,000 birds, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.

After two outbreaks of a highly contagious bird flu virus in Kerala, authorities have ordered culling of more than 200,000 birds, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.

India on Tuesday confirmed that there were cases of bird flu in West Bengal after samples collected from Nadia district in the state tested positive, officials said here. The government also ordered culling operations in the affected area, said a statement issued from the department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries under the ministry of ...

Over 69,000 birds including ducks and chicken were culled in the districts of Alappuzha and Kottayam to contain the H5N8 strain of bird flu, Kerala Animal Husbandry Minister K Raju said on Wednesday.

The Gujarat Animal Husbandry Department on Tuesday decided to cull around 700 birds kept at an animal care centre near the city after some of the Guinea fowls brought Ahmedabad from Mumbai were found to be infected with Avian Influenza, commonly known as Bird flu.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said an impression should not be created that human life has lesser value than that of a dog but stressed that stray dogs can be killed only in accordance with the Animal Birth Control Rules.

Gwalior Zoo has decided to cull its flock of painted storks after it was found that the 15 birds which had died in the last 72 hours had avian influenza.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today reached out to animal rights activists opposed to his government's new policy of culling dangerous stray dogs.

A day after the Kerala cabinet said it will cull 'dangerous' stray dogs in the state, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has offered an alternative. Ms Gandhi, who is a well-known animal rights activist has suggested that the Kerala administration should sterilize stray dogs, rather than kill them.

Kerala government's move to cull violent street dogs has drawn flak from animal rights groups with People For Animals saying it would take legal recourse if government takes steps to kill stray canines in violation of Supreme Court order.

The Supreme Court will hear a plea challenging three government notifications declaring as vermin nilgais, wild boars and monkeys, thereby paving the way for their culling in Bihar, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

The Supreme Court is likely to commence final hearing today on a bunch of petitions challenging the mass culling of stray dogs.

Kerala's plans to cull street dogs deemed to be dangerous has run into opposition. In addition to online campaigns urging people to boycott Kerala tourism and products, protests were held in cities around India.

The Telangana government has culled 51,888 poultry birds at Thorur village in Rangareddy district, the "epicentre" of the avian influenza outbreak.

Nearly 2.60 lakh ducks had been culled since November 26 after the outbreak of H5NI virus in three affected districts of Kerala, where no person was found infected, Minister for Animal Husbandry K P Mohanan said in Thiruvananthapuram today.

India has found two outbreaks of a highly contagious bird flu virus in Kerala, prompting the authorities to cull more than 200,000 birds, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.

After two outbreaks of a highly contagious bird flu virus in Kerala, authorities have ordered culling of more than 200,000 birds, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.

India on Tuesday confirmed that there were cases of bird flu in West Bengal after samples collected from Nadia district in the state tested positive, officials said here. The government also ordered culling operations in the affected area, said a statement issued from the department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries under the ministry of ...