Human-Wildlife Interactions and Zoonotic Risks in Urban India: A Socio-Zoological Perspective

Abstract

Zoonotic infections, referred to as diseases via animals to humans which have become a public health issue in quickly urbanized regions of India. This research paper brings out for comprehensive examination zoonotic disease transmission social and zoological dimensions of human behavior associated with relationship-rimmed urban wildlife and socio-economic and cultural spillover-risk drivers. It explains how urban growth and landuse and environmental changes intensify these risks by reshaping interaction among victims and contaminated urban wildlife: stray dogs, monkeys, and rodents. The very same work looks at how cultural practice; wildlife trades and domestic animal handling encourage zoonotic prevalence. Promoting interdisciplinary approaches to public health, wildlife management, and the community, research to this extent recommends actionable measures against zoonotic risks-through awareness programs, targeted policy interventions, and collaboration among wildlife experts, health authorities, and their urban communities to forge a sustainable human-wildlife balance and prevent outbreaks of diseases.This approach asks for interdisciplinary strategies in public health, wildlife management and community grounding to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases in urban India from a socio-zoo perspective. That was pave the path for awareness programs, policy interventions and closer collaboration between wildlife experts, public health authorities, and communities in creating a sustainable human-wildlife balance preventing disease outbreaks.