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National Action Plan for Vulture Conservation – 2020/2025
October 30 , 2020
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- The National Action Plan for Vulture Conservation, 2020-25 was recently approved by National Board for Wild life.
- Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu will get a vulture conservation and breeding centre each
- The new plan automatically removes veterinary use of a drug if it is found to be toxic to vultures.
- The main reason the vultures are getting wiped out in India is due to the drug diclofenac.
- Under the plan, every state will host at least one vulture safe zone to conserve the remnant population of vultures in the state.
- A coordinated Nation-wide vulture counting is to be conducted by the Bombay Natural History Society, Forest Department, non-profit organisations, Research Institute, etc.
- There must be Conservation breeding of red-Headed vultures and Egyptian vultures.
- There must be an establishment of four rescue centres, in Pinjore (Haryana), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Guwahati (Assam) and Hyderabad (Telangana).
- There are 9 species of vultures in India.
- These 9 species and their IUCN status are as follows
- Oriental white backed vulture - critically endangered
- Slender billed vulture - critically endangered
- Long billed vulture - critically endangered
- Egyptian vulture - endangered
- Red headed vulture - critically endangered
- Indian Griffon vulture - least concerned
- Himalayan Griffon vulture - near threatened
- Cinereous vulture - near threatened
- Bearded vulture - near threatened
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