Eight Captive-Reared Vultures to be Released with Tracking Devices

Eight captive-reared critically endangered white-backed vultures are set to take wings early next year for the first time in India since the vulture conservation centre near Pinjore was set up in September 2001.

Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre

The Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre on the edge of the Bir Shikargaha Wildlife Sanctuary is a joint project of Haryana and the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) with the British government’s Darwin Initiative for the Survival
of Species Fund to investigate the massive decline of three critically endangered Gyps species of vultures in India.

Initiatives by Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre

Six captive-bred vultures ....


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