According to a top scientist at the Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES), introduction of cheetahs in India will be a big challenge as India first have to adopt International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) protocol to introduce wild animals in the country.

About:

• LaCONES is an acronym for The Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species.

• It is a dedicated Laboratory of CSIR’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad.

• To use modern biotechnologies for conservation of endangered wildlife (It supports both the measures of conservation i.e. in situ and ex situ measures).

• Project LaCONES was established in 1998 with support from (i) Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, (ii) Central Zoo Authority of India (CZA), Delhi, (iii) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and (iv) Government of Andhra Pradesh.

• The laboratory was itself established in 2007. It is India’s only dedicated laboratory for conservation of endangered species.

Working:

• CCMB-LaCONES is the only laboratory in India that has developed methods for collection and cryopreservation of semen and
oocytes from wildlife and successfully reproducing endangered blackbuck, spotted deer and Nicobar pigeons.

• Through this work, it has established Genetic Resource Bank for Indian wildlife.

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