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As India’s exotic pet trade flourishes, abandonment of animals is an ecological danger (opens the original)
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India’s exotic pet trade has grown from a niche pursuit into a significant industry. Over 40,000 people across 30 states and union territories declared their exotic pets in the government’s 2020 Voluntary Disclosure Scheme, making the scale of ownership hard to ignore, according to a Humane World for Animals report published this year. Even that, the report cautions, could represent only a fraction of actual ownership. So, what draws people to animals that are often unfamiliar, expensive and dif
Orangutans in Odisha signal India is emerging as a destination for illegal primate pet trade (opens the original)
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Recently, pictures and videos of five orangutan babies in a forest in Odisha, thousands of miles from their real home, were plastered across many screens. As authorities investigate the antecedents of the critically endangered animals and discuss their future, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: international wildlife trafficking is widening its reach, and India is emerging as a destination. Keeping exotic animals and birds as pets, is not new in India. Non-native parrots have long dominat
‘Exotic’ pets are a growing health risk for humans and wildlife (opens the original)
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Mumbai-based veterinarian Dr Rina Dev was hospitalised for four days recently with a lung infection. “I hope it’s not something from the parrots I was treating,” she told Mongabay-India after being discharged from the hospital. Dr Dev is an avian and exotic animal veterinarian who works closely with the forest department to treat imported and seized exotic animals involved in the wildlife trade. Her concerns are valid. Avian chlamydiosis, or psittacosis, is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia psit
Fiction: Young Ved’s father is gay at a time when Section 377 labels homosexuality a crime in India (opens the original)
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I come back from school (another boring day, no girls at the bus-stop, only a blue file which sat next to me). I dump my school bag on the table and go running around the house, yelling, “Free, free at last,” when I suddenly skid to a halt. Vamsi’s bespectacled face peers out of Da’s bedroom and smiles shyly. I immediately stop, say hi back and walk to my room. I stay there till I am called for dinner. I eat quietly, ignoring Da’s questions. It’s annoying. Nobody has stayed two days in a row bef
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