Operation Bhediya reveals gaps in human-wildlife conflict mitigation

From Mongabay.com:

The forest officials of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district breathed a sigh of relief when they captured five wolves from a pack of six, which has been under scrutiny for recent animal attacks on people, mostly children. “The good news is that there haven’t been any attacks reported in the past week,” Shaheer Khan, a conservation biologist from the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, who is currently stationed in Bahraich to assist the forest department in identifying and capturing the wolves, informed Mongabay India earlier this week.

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