NEW DELHI: With vultures vanishing from almost 72% of their traditionally identified nesting websites throughout India, Union atmosphere minister Bhupender Yadav Sunday known as for persistent efforts to create ‘Vulture Secure Zones’ to help species restoration within the wild.Referred to as Nature’s best scavengers, the vulture inhabitants has seen a pointy decline because the Nineties, primarily as a result of disruption of their meals chain and veterinary use of diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug that was generally administered to livestock throughout the nation. Scientific analysis discovered that the vultures feeding on livestock carcasses handled with diclofenac suffered kidney failure, resulting in their demise.Yadav, subsequently, instructed creation of protected zones by means of vulture-safe veterinary practices, making certain protected meals availability and technical capability constructing. He appealed to veterinary professionals, livestock house owners, native administrations and communities to actively contribute to vulture conservation and promote protected carcass-management practices.
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The minister’s strategies got here at an occasion to rejoice Worldwide Vulture Consciousness Day 2026 at Panchkula in Haryana.India is at the moment house to 9 species of vultures – White-rumped, Lengthy-billed, Slender-billed, Crimson-headed, Egyptian, Himalayan Griffon, Eurasian Griffon, Cinereous and Bearded vultures – discovered throughout the nation from Himalayan vary within the north to Kerala within the south.
