Barking up the wrong tree? Indian street dog woes are emblematic of ecological governance failures for multispecies coexistence

This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 2 of this Preprint. You must log in to post a comment. There are no comments or no comments have been made public for this article. This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 2 of this Preprint. Add a Comment You must log in to post a comment. Comments There are no comments or no comments have been made public for this article. The Indian Supreme Court’s 2025 mandate to relocate millions of dogs exposed policy instability in cities where ecological realities, cultural practices, and institutional fragmentation collide. The crisis is less about animals and more about how urban governance fails to reconcile competing priorities, underscoring the collapse of the Indian coexistence model. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2GW7K Behavior and Ethology, Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences, Population Biology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Free-ranging dogs; Urban ecology; Anthropogenic resource subsidies; Zoonotic disease management; Environmental justice Published: 2025-11-13 07:54 Last Updated: 2026-05-08 23:04 CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Conflict of interest statement: None Data and Code Availability Statement: No primary data Language: English