{"id":60737,"date":"2025-12-05T18:53:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=60737"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:38:32","slug":"vulture-reintroduction-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/05-12-2025\/vulture-reintroduction-assam","title":{"rendered":"BNHS to Reintroduce Two Vulture Species in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/ Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)<\/strong>, is set to reintroduce two critically endangered vulture species, Slender-billed Vultures (Gyps tenuirostris) and White-rumped Vultures (Gyps bengalensis), in Assam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Vulture&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vultures are one of the<strong> <\/strong>22 species of large <strong>carrion-eating birds<\/strong> that live mostly in the tropics and subtropics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>India is home to nine species of Vulture<\/strong> namely the Oriental white-backed, Long-billed, Slender-billed, Himalayan, Red-headed, Egyptian, Bearded, Cinereous and the Eurasian Griffon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"cacece\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-22.png\" alt=\"vulture\u00a0\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-60738\" style=\"--dominant-color: #cacece; width:482px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-22.png 768w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-22-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Importance of Vultures<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They serve as <strong>nature\u2019s clean-up crew <\/strong>by feeding on the infected carcass which kills the Pathogens and breaks the chain of infections.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vultures are critically important to the <strong>Parsi community<\/strong> as it leaves its dead bodies atop the <strong>Towers of Silence<\/strong> to be consumed by vultures.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Major Threats<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use of&nbsp; toxic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like <strong>Diclofenac,<\/strong> Lack of Nesting Trees, Electrocution by power lines, Food Dearth and Contaminated Food, Pesticide poisoning etc. threaten vultures across the country.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BNHS has been <strong>encouraging veterinarians<\/strong> to use vulture-safe alternatives like <strong>Meloxicam and Tolfenamic acid<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India has <strong>lost 99 percent<\/strong> of the population of the three species, Oriental White-Backed Vulture, Long-billed Vulture and Slender-billed Vulture.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conservation Status<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Schedule-1 of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972:<\/strong> Bearded, Long-billed, Slender-billed, Oriental white-backed.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rest are protected under \u2018<strong>Schedule IV\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List;<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Critically Endangered: <\/strong>Oriental White-backed Vulture, Long-billed Vulture, Slender-billed Vulture and Red-headed Vulture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Endangered: <\/strong>Egyptian Vulture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Least Concerned: <\/strong>Eurasian Griffon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Near Threatened:<\/strong> Himalayan, Bearded and Cinereous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background has-fixed-layout\" style=\"background-color:#fff2cc\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)<\/strong><br><br>&#8211; BNHS is one of the largest and oldest <strong>non-governmental organizations<\/strong> in India dedicated to nature conservation and biodiversity research.\u00a0<br>&#8211; Founded on September 15, <strong>1883<\/strong>, in Mumbai, its mission is to conserve nature through action based on research, education, and public awareness.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/wire-updates\/national\/2025\/12\/04\/bes12-mh-bnhs-assam-vultures.amp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), is set to reintroduce two critically endangered vulture species, Slender-billed Vultures (Gyps tenuirostris) and White-rumped Vultures (Gyps bengalensis), in Assam.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulture<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">Vultures are one of the 22 species of large carrion-eating birds that live mostly in the tropics and subtropics.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">India is home to nine species of Vulture namely the Oriental white-backed, Long-billed, Slender-billed, Himalayan, Red-headed, Egyptian, Bearded, Cinereous and the Eurasian Griffon.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/05-12-2025\/vulture-reintroduction-assam\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60737"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60826,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737\/revisions\/60826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}