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Barking up the wrong tree? Indian street dog woes are emblematic of ecological governance failures for multispecies coexistence
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Authors
Nishant Kumar 
,
Tim Coulson
Abstract
On August 11, 2025, India’s Supreme Court mandated relocating 2.5 million dogs to address bites and zoonotic disease/death concerns—but reversed course twice since then—revealing that solutions require sequential waste management, education, and sterilization that prioritize addressing root demographic and behavioral drivers over reactive management.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.32942/X2GW7K
Subjects
Behavior and Ethology, Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences, Population Biology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Keywords
Free-ranging dogs; Urban ecology; Anthropogenic resource subsidies; Zoonotic disease management; Environmental justice
Dates
Published: 2025-11-13 16:54
Last Updated: 2025-11-13 16:54
License
CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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Conflict of interest statement:
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Language:
English
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