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VULTURE CONSERVATION PROJECT
Uma Bharati threatens hunger strike if concerns for tigers and vultures affect linking of rivers Ken and BetwaUma Bharati has threatened to go on a hunger strike if concerns for tigers and vultures come in the way of linking two rivers that will ben...
Wildlife board's Ken-Betwa riders don't impress expertsThe Ken-Betwa river-linking project, which promises to resolve Bundelkhand's water crisis, will not only submerge a considerable area insid...
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...
- Endangered vultures find no home in Goa
Just two of 15 critically endangered bird species mentioned in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) latest list were...
15 bird species in India critically endangered: International reportFifteen species of birds seen in India have been declared critically endangered by the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN...
- Vultures sighted in Katarniaghat
During a visit to the forest areas of Girjapuri seed farm in Western range, district forest officer (DFO) wildlife, Aasheesh Tewari spotted...
Diclofenac not the sole cause of vulture deaths, say expertsUse of diclofenac in animals has been reported to have led to a sharp decline in the vulture population in the Indian subcontinent and thei...
- Vulture count in Chikti forest of Odisha soon
Forest officials will carry out a survey on the rare Egyptian vultures, after a number of them were spotted near Laxmipur in Ganjam distric...
- 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...
Government urged to implement 'Project Bustard' to save grassland bird from extinctionExperts believe the bird has already disappeared from more than 90% of its former range and the remaining few are found in small population...
- Rare vultures spotted in Arunachal forest
Researchers from Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU), near here claimed they spotted three endangered species of vultures at Dying Ering Wildlife...
Action plan to conserve vultures in PenchOut of nine species of vultures found in Indian subcontinent, population of three species viz. Indian Long Billed Vulture, Indian White Bac...
- Vulture conservation project fails to impress
The vulture conservation project which was launched some three years back may not meet the desired goals due to half-hearted approach adopt...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Sonia buries 'drug' for Parsis
Of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s intrepid letter writing activity, one particular missive - in no way as contentious as her interventio...