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Experts studying forest owlet back efficacy

Pune: A debate is brewing between researchers over the proposed study of the critically endangered forest owlet near Melghat tiger reserve. While a section of experts emphasized the importance of research for the conservation of vulnerable species, activists and some scientists maintain that the bird can survive without any studies. Researchers are cut up about claims that the bird had become extinct in areas where similar research was carried out were ‘baseless’.