The Vulture Conservation Foundation is committed to conservation, restoration and protection of vultures as umbrella species for their natural habitats throughout Europe. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population severely declined. Jatayu conservation breeding centre (JCBC) for vultures, situated just outside Bir Shikargah Wildlife Sanctuary in Morni hills of the Shivalik ranges around 8km from the city of Pinjore off the busy Chandigarh-Shimla highway is going to complete its 15-year old long journey in September 2019. However, one vulture has been taken to the Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre at Rani for rehabilitation,” Goswami said. MIRZA, March 20 – The Himalayan griffon, a migratory bird which comes to Assam every winter from the Himalayan region, has been becoming a victim of poisoning in Assam every year and over 200 vultures, mostly Himalayan griffons, have died in the last one year in Assam. A ‘Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre’ was established at Pinjore, Haryana in September 2001 by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) in collaboration with the Haryana Forest Department with financial and other support from the Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species Fund of the Government of UK, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB),the Zoological Society of … The official said one vulture rescued from the site in a critical condition has been sent to Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre at Rani for rehabilitation. The Centre is expanding its vulture conservation programme across eight centres to save the endangered species and arrest the steady decline of their population. These vultures, numbering less than 1,000 in the country, are found only in Assam now. The Bombay Natural History Society, an NGO which jointly runs the Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre at Rani in Kamrup district of Assam … Borjhar, June 16: White cotton gamosas with traditional red embroidery will now sport vulture motifs to spread awareness on conservation of the endangered bird in Assam.. of Assam in collaboration with the BNHS, Bombay has established a Vulture conservation & Breeding centre at Rani. Vulture Conservation Breeding Centres in India produce the first two oriental white-backed vultures to be bred in captivity; breeding activity commences in India's two other breeding centres in Assam and West Bengal. Vulture conservation and breeding centre (Rani): In view of the depletion of the global population of vultures, the Govt. Brow Antlered Deer, Rucervus eldii eldii McClelland, 1842. Conservation Breeding Centre, Zoological Garden, Alipore, Kolkata. There were more vultures near the carcass that had reportedly flown away. In what could be hailed as the first step towards the restoration of the dwindling vulture population in India, the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has successfully bred 16 vultures in captivity in its Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre (VCBC) in Pinjore, Haryana. Indian vultures died of kidney failure caused by diclofenac poisoning. Find out more about Our Work, our Vulture Conservation … It is, however, suspected that the vultures … The move to emulate successful vulture breeding and rescue centre … Police said they are investigating the matter and have not yet arrested any criminal involved in the death of the vultures… Captive vulture … The Indian vulture (Gyps indicus) is an Old World vulture native to India, Pakistan and Nepal. It breeds mainly on A conservation breeding programme of Brow Antlered Deer sponsored by the Central Zoo Authority has been initiated at this zoo involving Assam State Zoo, Guwahati, Manipur Zoo and National Zoological Park, New Delhi. The objectives of the project is to have 50 pairs of Vultures for breeding …