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Back from brink: India's vultures stage comeback as captive-breeding, release efforts gather paceVultures are making a comeback in India after a two-decade decline, with over 700 birds bred in captivity and released into protected tiger...
Vulture culture: Rescuing the big birdCaptive breeding, protected zones, safe drugs and even special ‘restaurants’ are among the steps being taken in India to conserve the scave...
- Ban of harmful NSAIDs sought for vulture conservation
As a part of Wildlife Week, 2017 celebration the Wildlife Circle of Gujarat Forest Department has organized a symposium on Vulture Conserva...
Drug ban gives vultures wings, improves diversityThey are natural scavengers once abundantly found across Tamil Nadu but in the past three decades the introduction of an anti-inflammatory ...
Do vultures need a rebranding campaign in India?The unpretty bird also urgently needs a rebranding campaign, so that it can regain the pre-eminence it enjoyed in ancient Egypt, Tibet, Per...
- Haryana govt launches adoption scheme for birds and animals
In order to generate love for wildlife among people, the state government has launched a scheme for the adoption of birds or animals.
- New hope for saving vulture population
The Union government has banned multi-dose vials of human diclofenac, which is expected to give a boost to vulture conservation in the coun...
Vulture culture atop coconut palms sends bird numbers soaringAround 200 km south of Mumbai in the picturesque coastal town of Shrivardhan in Raigad district, a meticulous Vulture Conservation Centre i...
Forest dept to open seventh vulture 'restaurant' in Gadchiroli todayEven as International Vulture Awareness Day will be observed by the forest department on Saturday to highlight plight of vultures facing ex...
Vultures to be tracked with transmitters in MaharashtraThe state forest department and Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) will launch an in-situ vulture conservation project in Maharashtra fr...
- Banned painkiller behind death of 21 endangered vultures?
The death of 21 highly endangered Himalayan Griffon vultures in a Haldwani village has come as "very shocking news" for the Uttarakhand wil...
Nandankanan zoo yet to start white-backed vulture breedingThe authorities cited difficulties in getting stock of such vultures to start breeding. The zoo, which is a nodal centre for conservation o...
- Central govt to shell out Rs 1 crore to upgrade vulture conservation breeding centre
Their decline has been faster than any other wild bird. But before vultures faded out completely from the Indian sky, the state forest depa...
India praised for its vulture conservation effortsThe vultures in South Asia have been under threat for over a decade now. But the silver lining is that India has acted quickly to conserve ...
- Rare rumped vultures spotted in Hamirpur
At a time when efforts are being made for conservation of endangered vultures by setting up breeding centres, spotting of nearly 100 vultur...
- The scavenger eyes a comeback
It has been six years in coming, but the vulture conservation centre in Pinjore, Haryana, has landed a breakthrough – 16 vultures bred in c...
- Most endangered vulture breed ready to fledge
One of the world's best conservation stories is being scripted at a wildlife Centre in Haryana's Pinjore, where a slender-billed vulture ne...
- 3 poisoned Himalayan vultures successfully treated
Three Himalayan vultures who had consumed poisoned carcasses have been successfully treated and released in the wild.
- Nepals first vulture breeding centre established
Nepal has established the country's first vulture breeding centre inside the popular Chitawan National Park with a view to maintain a viabl...
- World's first vulture to be born in captivity survives
In a good news for the endangered species of vulture, the Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre in Pinjore has achieved a rare feat wherein ...