Vulture Conservation

The Indian vulture is an Old World vulture native to India, Pakistan and Nepal.

  • It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population severely declined.
  • Indian vultures died of renal failure caused by diclofenac poisoning. It breeds mainly on hilly crags in central and peninsular India. The drug is believed to be swallowed by vultures with the flesh of dead cattle which were given diclofenac in the last days of life.
  • The birds in the northern part of its range once considered a subspecies are now treated as a separate species, ....
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