I am sorry, but the article makes a moot point. To me it feels that it implies that to save a few hundred thousand due to dog bites, we must save the leopards? Is that the economical reason we need to save leopards? Or that dogs are valuable for being leopard preys? Two very complex problems at hand being presented as one solving another.
The problem of stray dogs is real and India has accepted stray dogs as part and parcel of life. Whether it is slum dwellers, or restaurants or societies that consider stray dogs as sense of security or the miserable humans who leave dogs on the streets when they cannot take care of them.
As for leopards, they have been compressed to a small portions of forest and need to survive in a non-conflict mode.
Please don’t oversimplify it to hence we need stray dogs / leopards.
I am sorry, but the article makes a moot point. To me it feels that it implies that to save a few hundred thousand due to dog bites, we must save the leopards? Is that the economical reason we need to save leopards? Or that dogs are valuable for being leopard preys? Two very complex problems at hand being presented as one solving another.
The problem of stray dogs is real and India has accepted stray dogs as part and parcel of life. Whether it is slum dwellers, or restaurants or societies that consider stray dogs as sense of security or the miserable humans who leave dogs on the streets when they cannot take care of them.
As for leopards, they have been compressed to a small portions of forest and need to survive in a non-conflict mode.
Please don’t oversimplify it to hence we need stray dogs / leopards.