Vulture Population in India Down From 4 Crore to Less Than 4 Lakh in 3 Decades: Javadekar
5 years, 1 month ago

Vulture Population in India Down From 4 Crore to Less Than 4 Lakh in 3 Decades: Javadekar

News 18  

New Delhi: The population of vultures in the country has declined sharply from four crore to less than four lakh in three decades, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday. Addressing the curtain raiser event for the upcoming 13th Conference of Parties of the United Nation Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, to be hosted by India next week, he revealed that veterinary drug 'diclofenac', used to treat cattle, lead to death of vultures after they consume the dead animals. In India, vultures died after consuming dead cattle, which were given 'diclofenac' drug, and their population reduced from four crore to less than four lakh. Elaborating on the measures, Soumitra Dasgupta, the Inspector General Forests, Ministry of Environment, said the drug has been banned and the vulture population is now reviving.

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Vultural Nationalism
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Vultural Nationalism

Times of India  

Times of India’s Edit Page team comprises senior journalists with wide-ranging interests who debate and opine on the news and issues of the day. Why those big scavenging birds are crucial for India GOI’s decision to ban all formulations of the drug Nimesulide – widely used as animal painkiller – because of its toxicity to vultures is a familiar story. …

Centre prohibits veterinary use of Nimesulide drug for vulture conservation
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Centre prohibits veterinary use of Nimesulide drug for vulture conservation

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: In a big boost for vulture conservation, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has prohibited the veterinary use of Nimesulide drug, considering its risks to wild animals, especially vultures that scavenge on carcasses. In 2022, Chief Minister M K Stalin set up a State Level Committee for vulture conservation. The committee, headed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, …

Madras High Court to find a solution to vultures suffering from food poisoning
8 months ago

Madras High Court to find a solution to vultures suffering from food poisoning

The Hindu  

The carrion-eating vultures are generally considered a sign of death; but the dreaded birds themselves are facing mass deaths and near extinction, ironically owing to the food they eat. In a public interest litigation petition before the first Division Bench of the High Court, the litigant, K. Surya Kumar of Vandalur in Chennai, said the vultures are considered natural scavengers …

U.P. readies world’s 1st conservation centre for Asian King vultures
8 months, 3 weeks ago

U.P. readies world’s 1st conservation centre for Asian King vultures

Hindustan Times  

Uttar Pradesh will soon have the world’s first conservation and breeding centre for Asian king vulture in Maharajganj. The aviary where vultures are kept for monitoring “This is the world’s first centre for breeding and conservation of Asian king vulture, also called red-headed vulture. The centre is named Jatayu Conservation and Breeding Centre, where 24x7 monitoring of the vultures is …

Plans are on to have vultures flock Doongerwadi once again
1 year, 1 month ago

Plans are on to have vultures flock Doongerwadi once again

Hindustan Times  

BNHS to work with stakeholders of Parsi community to achieve the objective Vultures play a crucial role in maintaining the ecosystem. After the Bombay Natural History Society released 10 long billed vultures in Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, and Tadoba Tiger Reserve, Chandrapur, on Sunday to counteract its dwindling population, the body is now planning to work with stakeholders of …

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 …

White-rumped vulture faces a perilous future in Nilgris’ Sigur plateau
1 year, 8 months ago

White-rumped vulture faces a perilous future in Nilgris’ Sigur plateau

The Hindu  

Despite the protective measures, the future remains extremely perilous for the critically endangered white-rumped vulture in the Sigur plateau in the Nilgiris, the last southernmost viable breeding population for the species in India. It was conducted by Samson Arockianathan for his doctoral thesis, ‘Studies on Population, Breeding Ecology and Conservation Threats of Critically Endangered White-rumped vulture in the Mudumalai Tiger …

Government yet to ban drug dangerous to vultures despite availability of safe options
2 years, 4 months ago

Government yet to ban drug dangerous to vultures despite availability of safe options

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 05, 2022 17:55 IST A paper published in the scientific journal Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology in November this year points to a new threat to vultures in Asia. As the paper says: “The catastrophic population declines of three species of Gyps vultures—white-rumped G. bengalensis, Indian G. indicus and slender-billed G. tenuirostris vultures—in South Asia from the mid-1990s …

‘Vets for vultures’ sensitisation programme held at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
2 years, 8 months ago

‘Vets for vultures’ sensitisation programme held at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

The Hindu  

A programme to sensitise veterinarians to the use of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and their impact on endangered vulture species was organised by the conservation NGO ‘Arulagam’ at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Theppakadu on Wednesday. Around 30 students from the veterinary university at Pookode in Wayanad, Kerala, participated in the event, titled “Vets for Vultures.” The Veterinarian at MTR, Rajesh …

Mysuru varsity, Forest Dept. join hands to save vultures
2 years, 10 months ago

Mysuru varsity, Forest Dept. join hands to save vultures

The Hindu  

The decline in the population of vultures has prompted the University of Mysore to take up studies for their conservation and to set up a vulture gene bank on the Manasagangotri campus here. The Department of Studies in Genetics and Genomics on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Karnataka Forest Department for a study on biodiversity of vultures …

Suspected Poisoning Claims Lives of 100 Endangered Vultures in Assam; Check Sale of Insecticides, Demand People
3 years ago

Suspected Poisoning Claims Lives of 100 Endangered Vultures in Assam; Check Sale of Insecticides, Demand People

News 18  

As many as 100 endangered vultures and an eagle have died in Assam’s Chaygaon, forest officials informed on Saturday. We were able to rescue 11 vultures and 1 eagle from the spot,” said Dimpi Bora, divisional forest officer Kamrup forest division. As per reports, the area where they were found is located close to a village where at least 10 …

Researchers find that vultures in India are still in danger from the NSAID diclofenac
4 years, 2 months ago

Researchers find that vultures in India are still in danger from the NSAID diclofenac

The Hindu  

IN the 1990s and 2000s, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug called diclofenac was widely used in veterinary palliative care for cattle. An undercover investigation led by a group of researchers from many Indian and international environmental organisations and universities—including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Centre for Conservation Science, Sandy, England; the Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai; Bird Conservation …

Eight critically-endangered Indian vultures to be released into the wild next year
6 years, 4 months ago

Eight critically-endangered Indian vultures to be released into the wild next year

Firstpost  

This effort is the second long-term project of its kind to preserve the endangered Indian vultures. Eight critically endangered white-backed vultures that were born and raised in captivity will be released for the first time from a vulture conservatory in Pinjore, Haryana in March next year. The Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre in Pinjore is the world’s largest facility within the …

Conservationists fight to save vultures in Pakistan
7 years, 4 months ago

Conservationists fight to save vultures in Pakistan

Firstpost  

Changa Manga : Once a common sight in the skies of Pakistan, today the white-backed vulture is facing extinction – its population devastated by the use of industrial drugs to breed the cattle whose carcasses they traditionally feed on. “Once vultures were found in a very good number in Pakistan,” explains Warda Javed, coordinator for the WWF backed Vulture Restoration …

India takes major step to save the vulture
9 years, 6 months ago

India takes major step to save the vulture

The Hindu  

In a major step, the Union Ministry of Health has banned multi-dose vials of human formulations of diclofenac, a painkilling drug that is responsible for the death of vultures in large numbers, reducing them to a critically endangered species in India and other Asian countries. However, human formulations of diclofenac are still widely available and illegally used to treat livestock, …

Vultures may be rescued by their genetic diversity
10 years, 5 months ago

Vultures may be rescued by their genetic diversity

The Hindu  

India’s notoriously diminished vulture population, now just 3 per cent of its size from two decades ago, may in fact have a fighting chance of revival, says a new research paper. What vultures have lost in numbers, they make up for in genetic diversity — a key criterion for successful breeding — finds a study of three critically endangered Asian …

How pain medication is killing India's vultures
12 years, 6 months ago

How pain medication is killing India's vultures

Firstpost  

The Bombay Natural History Society and UK-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds have drawn attention to a recent research paper highlighting threats to vultures. A new research by the Bombay Natural History Society and UK-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds have drawn attention to how painkillers pose a threat to vultures. The new research paper titled …

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 …

Vanishing vultures
13 years, 1 month ago

Vanishing vultures

The Hindu  

Vultures continue to fall prey to diclofenac, banned as a veterinary drug, and remain on the IUCN's Red List. At the time Vibhu Prakash accepted that practical problems would prevent an immediate end to the use of veterinary diclofenac, but even otherwise he was uneasy about the execution of the ban. The study, Assessing the ongoing threat from veterinary non-steroidal …

Saving vultures
13 years, 11 months ago

Saving vultures

The Hindu  

The inter-Ministerial consultation on vulture conservation, convened by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, has sent out a clear message to the State agriculture departments: it is they who hold the key to the fortunes of three critically endangered species in India. After years of research, scientists concluded that the cause for extermination of about 95 per cent of the …

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