The bench of Justice Satish Chander Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula of the Delhi High Court, September 1, 2023 directed Union of India to furnish the reasons as to why the drug ‘Nimesulide’ has not been banned, and deliberations undertaken in this regard. The matter has been listed for September …
PANJIM: The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has taken up a program to save vultures from getting extinct. Under this program, 30 young vultures will be ready to fly by year 2014. Dr Asad Rehmani, a senior member of National Board for Willdlife and Director of Bombay Natural History …
The number of Oriental white-backed vultures (Gyps bengalensis) living around the East-West Highway across the Tarai is gradually declining, according to a latest survey. A team of conservationists from Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN) recently completed annual highway transects survey of vultures found 43 Oriental white-backed vultures, one of the two …
Vadodara: The World Heritage Site of Champaner-Pavagadh is home to a heritage of the avian kind. The tough terrain of Pavagadh mountain is home to threatened vultures and nine of them were spotted in the two-day census exercise conducted by GEER Foundation and forest department. The teams also monitored a …
City, Mahuva Identified Among 6 Vulture Safe Zones In The Country Ahmedabad/Mahuva: Vulture conservation in Gujarat has got a major boost with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) selecting Mahuva and Ahmedabad among the six provisional vultures’ safe zones (VSZ) in India. Within three years, vultures successfully bred in captivity …
Union minister of state for forests Jayanthi Natarajan on Wednesday announced a recovery programme for saving critically endangered species and their habitats. Under the initiative, 16 species have been identified for support. This includes snow leopard, bustards (including floricans), dolphin, hangul, Nilgiri tahr, marine turtles, dugongs and coral reefs, edible …
The state’s maiden vulture breeding centre in Muta, 22km from Ranchi, may not have taken wing as yet, but Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park in Ormanjhi, closer to the capital, may soon boast a special winged guest. Forest officials and wildlife experts in Hazaribagh have nursed back to health a two-year-old …
The District Forest Officer, the Nilgiris North, S.Ramasubramanian said here on Tuesday that a wild animal census in the North division would be conducted on May 2 and 3. Volunteers About 70 volunteers including students of the Government Arts College and forest staff would participate in the census operations to …
Study in the wild to create awareness of conservation The last significant vulture population in the Western and Eastern Ghats are threatened by the indiscriminate use of pesticides, say researchers watching vulture habitats. A team of researchers from CareEarth Arulagam has taken up a detailed study in the wild and …
New Delhi: Sunday Times had on April 1 reported about Assam man Jadav Payeng’s unparalleled feat of single-handedly growing a forest spread over 550 hectares on a sandbar in the Brahmaputra over 30 years. On Earth Day, Jawaharlal Nehru University honoured him for his remarkable achievement at a public function …
Vulture restaurants in Nawalparasi district are witnessing few winged visitors as there is the shortage of cattle carcasses. More young cattle are coming to the restaurants instead of the sick and old ones that die early. The restaurants were established four years ago, to supply clean food to endangered vultures …
MUMBAI: At this restaurant, tables are reserved only for the unique and rare white-rumped vultures (Gyps Bengalensis). An endangered species, their numbers have increased after the state forest department launched the 'vulture restaurant' project a year ago in Phansad wildlife sanctuary near Murud, in Raigad district, in association with the …
The Nilgiri North Forest Division is located at the centre of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, with Mudumalai Tiger Reserve on the western side and Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary on the eastern side. The Segur plateau and adjoining Moyar valley, which extend over an area of 500 sq. km with open scrub …
With the presence of 1,168 bird species recorded in the country, India has been ranked 9th in the global list of bird wealth. While a majority of Indian species belonged to the Least Concerned category indicating that they were relatively safe from threats, the country was ranked 6th in terms …
Government Tells Assembly That Birds’ Numbers Dropped By 25% Ahmedabad: Vulture population in Gujarat has dropped to a new low of 1,065 during the last five years. The count recorded in 2007 was 2,539 and ever since then, a sharp decline is seen. The count further dropped to 1,431 in …
The ‘Sholay Rocks’ of Ramanagaram will now have the first vulture sanctuary in the country. About 22 sqkm area in and around the Ramadevarabetta Reserve Forests (RRF) in Ramanagaram has now been notified as the Ramadevarabetta Vulture Sanctuary. About 15 of the last surviving vultures of this species in South …
Act now or it will be never! Three species of south Asia’s vultures are critically threatened with extinction in the near future. Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE), a group of international experts — in its first meeting on saving the endangered raptors has strongly recommended legislations to stop the …
DHAR KHURD (PATHANKOT): The vulture conservation project which was launched some three years back may not meet the desired goals due to half-hearted approach adopted by the government. Not only two out of three "vulture restaurants" set up by state government have been abandoned, the wildlife department also doesn't have …
A report of Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE), a consortium of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and UK-based Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), launched by the union environment ministry, has reiterated that the size of human diclofenac vials must be reduced through support from both the government …
Even as vultures in India are reeling under the threat of extinction, sighting of rare Central Asian vultures in the Jammu region have brought cheer to wildlife experts and environmentalists. Dr CM Seth, chairperson of the Jammu and Kashmir chapter of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has claimed to have …
In the village of Pithauli, surrounded by ripening mustard fields, a woman hauls a cow carcass on a trolley, drops it in an open field, then runs and hides in a nearby hut as dozens of vultures swoop down. In under half an hour, the carcass has been reduced to …
