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♤ 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.