Overview
- Seven surviving blackbucks have been isolated within a separate enclosure and are under veterinary care with precautionary treatment.
- Zoo and forest authorities ordered quarantine, carcass disposal, disinfection drives and heightened surveillance across Karnataka’s zoos.
- Officials alerted nearby villages to monitor cattle and other herbivores, with Animal Husbandry teams advising vaccination and rapid reporting of symptoms.
- Laboratory findings indicate hemorrhagic septicaemia as the cause, with post-mortem and forensic analyses continuing to trace transmission routes.
- Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre gave in-principle approval for a new cadre and the appointment of 15 wildlife doctors, alongside directives to draft SOPs and conduct audits after schedule-animal deaths.