Scavengers: Infinity war
At one point of time in 1990s, there were 2,000 vultures in
Raigad district alone but their number has now come down to 350.
The forest department and Mahad-based conservation
NGO Seescap (Society of Ecoendangered Species Conservation and Protection) will be undertaking the first-ever census of vultures in India.
At one point, Mumbai had many vultures, and most of them were restricted to
Sanjay Gandhi National Park and the
Tower of Silence, where the Parsis perform the last rites of their dead.
Over a period of time due to increasing urbanisation, the vultures left Mumbai. The decline in the population of vultures in Maharashtra and many other parts of the country has been blamed on the