Context
Recently,dholes or Asiatic wild dogs (Cuon alpinus) found in the Bek-Tosot Conservancy in southern Kyrgyzstan, a few kilometres from the Tajik border.
About Dhole
- Dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a wild carnivorous animal belonging to the canine family, found in Central, South, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.
- They are also known as Asian wild dogs.
- Dholes play an important role as apex predators in forest ecosystems.
- It is under the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) ‘endangered category.
- The species is protected under Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and under Appendix 2 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
- In India, the first conservation breeding centre for dholes was built at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) in 2014.
About International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN)
- IUCN is an international organisation (NGO) working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
- It is involved in data gathering and analysis, research, field projects, advocacy, lobbying, and education.
- The organisation is best known for compiling and publishing the IUCN Red List, which assesses the conservation status of species worldwide.
- Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland.
- The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, founded in 1964, is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
- When discussing the IUCN Red List, the official term “threatened” is a grouping of three categories: Critically Endangered, Endangered, and Vulnerable.
- Critically endangered (CR): Extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
- Endangered (EN): High risk of extinction in the wild.
- Vulnerable (VU): High risk of endangerment in the wild.
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