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CAPTIVE BREEDING VULTURES
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...- Tiger, pangolin farming in Myanmar risks 'boosting demand'
- 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...
- 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...
- New hope for saving vulture populationThe Union government has banned multi-dose vials of human diclofenac, which is expected to give a boost to vulture conservation in the coun...
- 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...
- GIB conservation plan caught in red-tapismThe state bird conservation plan is caught up in bureaucratic red-tapism.
- Endangered vultures find no home in GoaJust two of 15 critically endangered bird species mentioned in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) latest list were...
- Migratory birds flock Gangetic wetlands in BiharWith avian visitors as far as from Ladakh, China border and Europe flocking the Gangetic wetlands, the state has turned into a bird watcher...
- Central govt to shell out Rs 1 crore to upgrade vulture conservation breeding centreTheir 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...
- 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 ...
- 99 per cent crash in vulture population reported by Bombay Natural History SocietyThere has been a 99 per cent crash in the vulture population from the mid of 1990s till now, reported the Bombay Natural History Society (B...
- Experts blame land shortage for lack of breeding space of sarusScanty rainfall followed by delay in sowing of paddy crop are the major reasons for the decline in nesting sites of sarus.
- In a first, captive-bred vultures to be released in AhmedabadVulture conservation in Gujarat has got a major boost with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) selecting Mahuva and Ahmedabad among t...
- The scavenger eyes a comebackIt 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 fledgeOne of the world's best conservation stories is being scripted at a wildlife Centre in Haryana's Pinjore, where a slender-billed vulture ne...
- Indian vultures may be gone in 10 yearsThe oriental white-backed vulture, once thought to be the commonest bird of prey in the world, has lost 99.9% of its population since 1992,...
- World's first vulture to be born in captivity survivesIn 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 ParsisOf Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s intrepid letter writing activity, one particular missive - in no way as contentious as her interventio...
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