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16.3.10 . Vulture Restaurants



Aim

At this restaurant, tables are reserved only for the unique and rare vultures by Maharashtra and Punjab forest departments


Conserve the fast dwindling vulture population.


As uncontaminated food shortage is one of the reasons for vultures’ decline, these scavengers will be fed by serving diclofenac free carcasses of cattle through restaurants.

VR includes involvement of local communities in in-situ conservation, is having dual benefits to vultures and to our society.

People inform the forest department in case of the death of an animal in their village and the department tests the dead animal for the presence of diclofenac.

In their absence the department pays monetary benefits to the owner of the animal and informer,

transports it to the vulture restaurant.


Apart from this, whenever a vulture nesting is found, conservation measures like providing safe food near nesting trees, constant protection from all sorts of disturbances, etc., are put in place without delay.