Will India become devoid of wildlife?

Politicians in Kerala beat 10 stray dogs to death and then paraded their carcasses along the streets, while shouting slogans against Ms Maneka Gandhi, who is a fierce defendant of animal rights. Stray dogs had killed a woman recently and killed and eaten half the body of an old woman a week previously. There are 30 million stray dogs roaming the streets of India and 20,000 people die of rabies every year. Rabies is viral disease with 100% mortality and the only way to get rid of this disease would be to cull all stray dogs. Will that eliminate the disease totally? No. There will still be a reservoir in wild animals such as bats, foxes and monkeys. Even in the US there are occasional cases every year. Rabies can even be transferred through organ transplant, in one case killing an organ recipient more than one year after transplant. The chick embryo vaccine costs Rs 355, so 4 doses of the vaccine will cost around Rs 1400, add doctor's fees and injecting charges and the total cost will be in excess of Rs 2,000. Poor people will be reluctant to spend so much, especially if the bite is small. Human rabies immunoglobulin will cost in excess of Rs 10,000. Animal activists insist that dogs should be immunised and neutered but want the taxpayer to pay for it, which no politician will want to do. The only answer is to eliminate street dogs without any suffering. Pet dogs, suffering from painful incurable illness are put down by vets, without anyone objecting. Sadly, instead of a rational examination of the problem our journalists write sensational articles about dog owners refusing to pick up dog feces from public spaces. This naturally raises the hackles of dog owners, who see this as unfair. Delhi is the crime capital of India where old people living alone are especially vulnerable. They often keep dogs as pets for security and pay people to take them for walks. These people will never clean up dog feces. Not just dogs. There are thousands of stray cows all over India. Although there are cow shelters conditions are terrible so that hundreds die. Cows eating discarded plastic bags from garbage dumps die a very painful death, without any succour. Around 12 years back almost all birds disappeared from Delhi and most of north India. Pigeons, grey doves, brown myna birds and crows have made a comeback but no sparrows are to be seen anywhere just yet. Disappearing birds have been noticed in the US but there seems to be no urgency in India. As the number of people increases so habitat disappears, poaching increases and conflict between humans and animals is increasing. However, there is no rational discussion, just stupid articles about dog poo. Because dog owners are seen as better off. So bashing them is popular.