{"id":31335,"date":"2025-03-19T05:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31335"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:38:11","slug":"national-wildlife-health-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-wildlife-health-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"National Wildlife Health Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>National Wildlife Health Policy Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Government of India is drafting a National Wildlife Health Policy (NWHP) to strengthen wildlife disease surveillance, research, and diagnostics.<\/p>\n<h2>About National Wildlife Health Policy (NWHP)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Central Zoo Authority (CZA)<\/strong> initiated this program to enhance <strong>wildlife health<\/strong> and manage <strong>zoonotic diseases<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative is a key component of the <strong>National Wildlife Action Plan (2017-31)<\/strong> and follows the <strong>One Health approach<\/strong>, which integrates <strong>human, animal, and environmental health<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Institutions &amp; Initiatives Under NWHP<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>National Referral Centre for Wildlife (NRC-W): <\/strong>It was recently inaugurated in Junagadh, Gujarat, and will serve as a <strong>key hub<\/strong> for wildlife health management.\n<ul>\n<li>Functions as <strong>India\u2019s first wildlife disease diagnostic and research centre<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate wildlife mortalities, outbreaks, and facilitates disease treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Wildlife Health Information System: <\/strong>Proposed under NWHP to <strong>streamline disease reporting and surveillance across regions<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Will work alongside the <strong>National Animal Disease Referral Expert System<\/strong> and <strong>National Animal Disease Reporting System<\/strong> to forecast and prevent outbreaks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Central Zoo Authority (CZA)<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Statutory body under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Established in <strong>1992<\/strong> under the <strong>Ministry of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change (MoEF&amp;CC)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to strengthen wildlife conservation efforts and maintain animal health in zoological parks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Alignment with India&#8217;s Wildlife Conservation Framework<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>National Wildlife Action Plan (2017-31)<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Outlines <strong>103 conservation actions and 250 projects<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Includes <strong>standard protocols <\/strong>for disease surveillance in tiger reserves and protected areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wildlife Protection Act, 1972<\/strong>: Provides legal backing for wildlife disease monitoring and control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>National Wildlife Health Policy FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What is the National Wildlife Health Policy?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> The National Wildlife Health Policy is a framework aimed at monitoring, preventing, and managing wildlife diseases to protect biodiversity and ecological balance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>Why is wildlife health important?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> Wildlife health is crucial to maintaining ecosystem stability, preventing zoonotic diseases (like COVID-19), and ensuring conservation efforts are effective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>How does this policy help in preventing zoonotic diseases?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> It establishes monitoring systems to detect diseases in wildlife before they spread to humans, promoting a &#8220;One Health&#8221; approach that integrates human, animal, and environmental health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/covid-outbreak-national-wildlife-health-policy-takes-shape-9892080\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Wildlife Health Policy is a framework aimed at monitoring, preventing, and managing wildlife diseases to protect biodiversity and ecological balance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}