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In Chirgaon, Residents and Conservationists Work To Bring Back Their Vultures 27/07/2021 A long billed vulture. Representative image. Photo: Arindam Aditya/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 A small village in Maharashtra’s Raigad region is on its way to revive its vulture population. The collective efforts of the locals and conservation organisations have seen the local vulture population in Chirgaon village rise to 249 this year, from 22 in 1999-2000 when nationally, the vulture population was sharply declining. In the 1980s, India was home to around 40 million vultures primarily belonging to three species – white-backed, long-billed and slender-billed. By 2017, that number had declined to 19,000. The sharp slide – as much as 90% in some species – prompted the government of India to launch the National Vulture Conservation Action Plan 2020-25 in 2019. The conservation plan looks to not just halt this decline but also actively increase the number of ....
Veterinary Painkiller Nimesulide Killing Vultures in India, Study Finds 18/07/2021 White-rumped vultures at Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur, March 1991. Photo: Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 A veterinary pain killer drug, nimesulide, has been causing the death of vultures in India, finds a new study published in the latest edition of the international scientific journal, Environmental Science and Pollution Research. Diclofenac has long been established as the prime reason for wiping out 99 percent of the vulture population in India in the 90s. Later two more veterinary drugs – aceclofenac and ketoprofen – were found to be toxic for vultures. While diclofenac is banned, a proposal to ban the other two drugs is already under consideration by the Indian government, lead vulture scientist and deputy director at Bombay Natural History Society, Vibhu Prakash told Mongabay-India. ....
Outlook Traveller SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE A stopover near Pangong Tso, Ladakh, Home > Explore > Story > 9 Reasons Why You Should Make India your 2021 Destination It has huge diversity in landscapes, culture and food. and the second-largest road network in the world. Here s why India is the destination du jour for next year 15 Min Read The year-that-shouldn’t-be-named is coming to an end and as the pandemic constantly waxes and wanes, some guilty corner of everybody’s mind is already deep in thought about travel in 2021. ‘When’s my first trip going to be?’ ‘How often will I be able to travel next year?’ ‘Will the mountains be safe because everyone’s headed there?’ ‘Will I finally get to see lions in Kruger. or, will I even travel abroad?’ So, what even if you can’t? In fact, the coming year is the perfect time to explore the lesser-known corners of the homeland. Over 7,500km of coast, 36 states and union territories, multiple mounta ....