Vulture conservation movement in the subcontinent is set to get
a boost with Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) expecting
30 young vultures to be released from the breeding facilities
and also marking of vulture safe zones at three places in India
by 2014. “Extinction of vultures is a cause of concern. Almost
40 per recent of remaining vultures are dying every year,” Dr
Asad Rehmani, a senior member of National Board for Wildlife and
Director of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), said in
Panaji. He said the 30 young vultures have already been bred at
the facilities and they will be released in 2014-15. MoEF has
set up three vulture breeding facilities at Rani, Guwahati
(Assam), Pinjore (Haryana) and Buxa (West Bengal). “The breeding
facilities had started some years back but it takes time for the
reproduction amongst vultures. The projects are expensive but
the real idea is that if vultures totally disappear there should
be some at least in captivity which can be released,” said
Rehmani, whose BNHS