Spotty, the spotted deer fawn, and Blacky, a blackbuck calf, are ordinary deer and not.
They were born not in woodland, but in a lab by artificial insemination. Spotty and Blacky are the results of an Indian laboratory’s effort to grow endangered animals through assistive reproduction in a remote facility on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
The Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES) and its scientists have raised the Kashmir Hangul Deer, Nicobar Blue-Rock Pigeons, MouseDeer and the Chhattisgarh Buffalo.
A dream of the father of DNA fingerprinting in India, scientist Lalji Singh, the lab is part of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Centre For Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CMB). It has been fighting extinction since 2007.
The importance of their work can be gauged from the fact that 14% of all species in India face extinction. Conservation breeding and assisted reproductive strategies are one of the best ways to keep them from disappearing from the face of the earth.
Despite having just seven scientists currently, LaCONES has made decisive strides in conserving endangered species. It is the only laboratory in India to develop methods for collecting and cryo-preserving semen and oocytes from wildlife. It uses modern biotechnology methods to reproduce endangered species.
LaCONES has a frozen zoo. This is a genetic resource bank of Indian wildlife and is a crucial part of the species recovery project. Scientists have preserved the genetic material of 23 wild animals, including tigers, lions, wild dogs and leopards.
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