Edicts of Ashoka and animal conservation

 Pillar Edict Nb.5 (S. Dhammika) clearly states that animals should not be fed to one another. Female goats, ewes, sows that are young or providing milk to young creatures are sheltered by this edict.

The king also put an embargo on sterilizing roosters and burning husks or forests sheltering animals. 

After all, protecting the natural habitat of native species is one of the main goals of animal rights movements nowadays! Ashoka’s Maurya Empire was the first Indian empire to bring unity to the nation.

With the Edicts of Ashoka, all of India saw changes in style of governance that provided protection to fauna.

This made Ashoka the first ruler in the history of the country to advocate for measures for the protection and conservation of wildlife.

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