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How Vultures were saved from Extinction
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- How Vultures were saved from extinction.
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- Late 1990’s were the times when vulture population were declining sharply.
- To study the cause of deaths of vultures, a Vulture Care Centre (VCC) was set up at Pinjore, Haryana.
- Vultures from Haryana, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh were brought in to this facility.
- With being the sole facility for conservation of vultures in the country VCC at present have nine Vulture Conservation and Breeding Centres (VCBC) in India.
- Three of these centers are directly administered by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS).
- Thriving population
(1) The total number of vultures in these VCBCs is more than 700.
(2) Three species of vultures bred in the VCBC
(a) White-backed
(b) Long-billed
(c) Slender-billed vulture
(3) As vultures are slow-breeding birds interventions are required to revive there population.
(4) These vulture bread in the centers are to be subsequently released into the wild.
- Major reason behind declining Vulture population was the drug Diclofenac, found in the carcass of cattle the vultures fed on.
- The drugveterinary use was banned in 2008, was administered to cattle to treat inflammation.
Source
The Hindu