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Kerala’s wildlife rehabilitation
Why is it in News?
- Kerala is planning to improve wildlife rehabilitation capabilities by establishing facilities to treat nurture injured and orphan big cats.
Details:
- These facilities will be available for big cats and large carnivores rescued from wild.
- Centre will be established in Thrissur on the lines of existing Chamarajendra biological garden in Mysuru.
- Mysuru garden treats tigers, leopards, sloth bears, wild dogs and other.
- Thrissur center will treat and send them back to wild and rehabilitate those which are permanently disabled.
- This facility will be established in the background of increasing man-animal conflicts.
- State has rehabilitation centre for captive & wild elephants at Kottoor in Thiruvananthapuram.