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The Karnataka government’s proposal to combat climate change with a Rs 53,000-crore budget for 2020-2030 has been left on the shelf of the Union government for about a year, even as officials and activists warn that a lack of urgency in implementing the action plan will have a detrimental effect on the nature.
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As many as 600 elephants have been killed due to electrocution in India from 2009-10 to 2019-20 with Karnataka accounting for 116 of the deaths, second only to Odisha (117). Officials warn that constant pressure of development work in elephant ranges and climate change may pose more challenges to conservation.
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In what was called the first study to assess the genetic impact on captive-bred wild animals in India, scientists have found that pygmy hogs, the endangered and smallest pig species in the wild maintained genetic diversity even after long-term captive breeding in Assam. Conservationists in Assam have done captive breeding of nearly 500 pygmy hogs since 1996 and have so far