The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change launched the Action plan for Vulture conservation in India 2020-2025.
Factors Threatening Vulture Population
The poisoning of vulture food by NSAIDs. For eg: Ketoprofen and aceclofenac. Heavy overdose due to untrained individuals is one of the major problems.
Vultures are also prone to unintentional poisoning when the farmer stuffs the carcass of his cattle, killed either by feral dogs or a wild predator, with organo-chlorine or organo-phosphate, which are poisonous for vultures.
Potent agricultural pesticides like Carbamates (Furadon), phorate, phosphamidon, malathion etc are very easily available.
Vultures are prone to electrocution on power poles.
