Perspectives on Virtual Animal Dissections as Alternatives : Green Approach to Biodiversity Conservation
Keywords:
Animal ethics, Virtual dissections, Biodiversity Conservation, UGC.Abstract
Students and researchers in life sciences using experimental animals for dissections, every year millions of experimental animals are used all over the world. The distress, pain and death experienced by animals during dissections have been one of the debating issues among researchers and conservation bodies for long time. Besides the major concern of animal ethics and environmental conservation there are various disadvantages of animal dissections such as habitat destruction, enormous degradation of biodiversity, massive ecological imbalance, natural calamities etc. animals obtained from natural habitat and purposely bred in facilities that profit from their sales also most of animals are target of animal dealers who makes money from stealing and selling. In concern with this the University Grants Commission has issued the Notification under 12(j) of UGC Act, 1956 (UGC guidelines –Point No.7.3.1, Page no.4) urging all the universities to stop the dissections of animals, accordingly animal dissection has to be replaced with animal dissections software for virtual dissections.
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