State’s second vulture breeding centre planned in Pune’s Bavdhan area
2 months, 1 week ago

State’s second vulture breeding centre planned in Pune’s Bavdhan area

Hindustan Times  

In efforts to conserve vulture species in Maharashtra, with almost all classified as threatened or endangered, the state forest department planned two vulture breeding centres — Pune and Nashik — in the state. Also, few migratory species like Egyptian Vulture is also sighted in some areas Work for the ₹15-crore Nashik centre project near Trimbakeshwar, started around two months back, is expected to be completed by the end of 2025. Tushar Chavan, deputy conservator of forests, Pune forest department said, “The vulture population in Maharashtra is around 1,000. The site for the planned project will be spread around 5.5 hectares near the existing transit treatment centre in Bavdhan and will focus on the long-billed vulture species.

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Despite challenges, vulture population in south stable: Experts
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Despite challenges, vulture population in south stable: Experts

Hindustan Times  

Despite the widespread illegal use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to treat sick domestic animals by local farmers and veterinarians and smoke emanating from climate change-induced wildfires, the vulture population in southern part of India has nearly stabilised, according to early indications from a just-concluded synchronised survey of these winged scavengers. According to the researchers who took part in the census …

Lone vulture flies 4,000km to reach TN from Maharashtra
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Lone vulture flies 4,000km to reach TN from Maharashtra

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: A one-year-old captive-bred, juvenile white-rumped vulture, has taken a 4,000-km-long flight from the Tadoba National Park in Maharashtra to Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu. The weary bird, which made numerous pit stops in its sojourn including Chennai, has been resting its wings at an abandoned agricultural plot in Aranthangi for the past four days. The Maharashtra forest department and Bombay …

Wings of hope: Can Ramanagara revive its vulture population?
6 months, 1 week ago

Wings of hope: Can Ramanagara revive its vulture population?

The Hindu  

The nature enthusiasts who gathered at the Ramadevarabetta vulture sanctuary on the morning of September 14 were one lucky batch. What awaited the group was a glorious view of the only pair of critically endangered long-billed vultures in the sanctuary, perched about 3,000 feet high on the crevice of a monolith that’s characteristic of Ramanagara. The Karnataka Forest Department and …

India’s first vulture breeding centre takes flight from Gorakhpur
6 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s first vulture breeding centre takes flight from Gorakhpur

Hindustan Times  

GORAKHPUR India’s first conservation and breeding centre for the Asian King Vultures was inaugurated in Bharivaisi, Campierganj Range of the Gorakhpur forest division by chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath during the inauguration of Jatayu Conservation and Breeding Centre, in Gorakhpur district. The centre in Gorakhpur set up at a cost of ₹2.80 crore includes breeding …

India’s southernmost vulture population stands at 320 individuals
1 year, 2 months ago

India’s southernmost vulture population stands at 320 individuals

The Hindu  

More than 300 vultures were recorded in the recently completed synchronous vulture survey in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve encompassing parts of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, according to data from the Tamil Nadu Forest Department. A total of 217 critically endangered white-rumped vultures, 47 long-billed vultures, 50 Asian king vultures, four endangered Egyptian vultures and two “near threatened” Himalayan griffon …

Why saving the vulture matters
1 year, 6 months ago

Why saving the vulture matters

Live Mint  

The latest State of India’s Birds report, released towards the end of August, revealed yet more alarming trends for vulture species in the country. Vultures have catastrophically declined in India since the 1990s – from a population of millions to now just tens of thousands -- with the Indian vulture crisis labelled by many conservationists as one of the most …

246 vultures spotted in first-ever synchronised survey in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka
2 years ago

246 vultures spotted in first-ever synchronised survey in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka

The Hindu  

As many as 246 vultures were spotted in the first ever synchronised survey conducted along the borders of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka on February 25 and 26. The estimation was carried out in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and the adjoining landscape consisting of Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala, Bandipur Tiger Reserve and Nagerhole …

T.N. government plans synchronised vulture census across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka
2 years, 1 month ago

T.N. government plans synchronised vulture census across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka

The Hindu  

The State-level Vulture Conservation Committee has decided to conduct a synchronised vulture census in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. Around 60 villages, 20 each in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka, have been identified as hotspots based on vultures’ feeding and nesting areas, and areas where there is a notable cattle-carnivore conflict, said S. Bharathidasan, secretary, Arulagam, a non-profit organisation working …

Explained | Saving the vultures of Tamil Nadu
2 years, 5 months ago

Explained | Saving the vultures of Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

The story so far: On October 19, the Tamil Nadu government formed a committee to set up an institutional framework for the effective conservation of vultures. Though Egyptian vultures are spotted in the Sigur plateau, encompassing the Nilgiris and Erode districts, they are not believed to use the landscape to breed, while researchers still remain unsuccessful in tracing the breeding …

Maha: Phansad Sanctuary to Set Up 'Food Centre' for Vultures as Their Numbers Fall
2 years, 6 months ago

Maha: Phansad Sanctuary to Set Up 'Food Centre' for Vultures as Their Numbers Fall

News 18  

To revive the population of vultures in the region, a `food centre is being set up at the Phansad wildlife sanctuary in coastal Maharashtra’s Raigad district. The sanctuary, about 140 km from Mumbai, used to have more than 30 vultures until seven years ago but most of the birds have now migrated to other areas due to lack of food, …

Forest officials propose vulture conservation in Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar
3 years, 6 months ago

Forest officials propose vulture conservation in Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar

Hindustan Times  

Forest officials have sent a proposal to the Bihar government to set up a vulture conservation centre in the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in West Champaran district on the pattern of Uttarakhand’s Corbett National Park with the aim to save the endangered flying scavengers from extinction in the region, forest officials said. We are planning the recovery programme for Himalayan Griffon …

Vulture population on the rise in tiger reserve
3 years, 8 months ago

Vulture population on the rise in tiger reserve

The Hindu  

A recent study of the population of vultures in the Sigur plateau has found that the population of all four resident vulture species have seemingly been on the rise over the past few years. In a study titled Population status and seasonal distribution of vultures in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, published in the Journal of Science and Technology, authors S. Manigandan, …

Roosting site with rare vultures found near Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve
4 years, 9 months ago

Roosting site with rare vultures found near Madhya Pradesh’s Panna Tiger Reserve

Hindustan Times  

While out on lockdown duty in April, a forest officer in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna stumbled upon one of the very few roosting sites for vultures in India. The officer’s rare spotting included 150 to 160 vultures of four species, along with the critically-endangered white-rumped vulture and endangered Egyptian vulture, roosting off the Katni-Panna highway, about 60 km from the Panna …

Vultures on the the brink of extinction in State?
12 years, 11 months ago

Vultures on the the brink of extinction in State?

The Hindu  

The population of vultures has declined so drastically in Andhra Pradesh that the scavenging bird is on the verge of extinction. Except for two vultures sighted in Utnoor in Adilabad in November last and February this year, they are not found anywhere else,” said G. Umapaty, senior scientist, Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species, a facility of the Centre …

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