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With an nonsubjective to item challenges earlier conservation of vultures and to sermon imaginable solutions, Bird Conservation Society, Gujarat (BCSG) volition organise a nationalist symposium connected the taxable successful Ahmedabad connected September 29.
The National Symposium connected Vulture Conservation, 2024, volition beryllium inaugurated by Nityanand Srivastava, main conservator of forests (wildlife) and main wildlife warden of Gujarat. Wildlife Biologist Vibhu Prakash, who, nether the aegis of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), headed the vulture conservation programme, volition beryllium the impermanent of honour, the organisers said.
Chris Bowden, advisor to Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE) consortium and UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) serviceman for globally threatened species; John Mollard, elder conservation idiosyncratic astatine the RSPB; and Ankit Bilash Joshi, vulture conservation programme manager astatine Bird Conservation Nepal, volition beryllium among planetary experts who volition present talks astatine the event.
The symposium volition besides beryllium addressed by Percy Avari, a Mumbai-based veterinarian, and Abhijit Pawde, main idiosyncratic and in-charge of centre for wildlife astatine Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly.
“We person been seeing a perpetual diminution successful vulture population. Isolated efforts person been made to code the situation. But collaborative efforts to apprehension the diminution are lacking. There is nary nodal bureau for conservation of vultures,” BCSG president Bakul Trivedi said.
The 2022 vulture census by Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation concluded that the vulture colonisation successful Gujarat roseate by 155% betwixt 2018 and 2022. During this period, the vulture colonisation jumped from specified 840 individuals to 2,143. The maturation was propelled by Egyptian vultures. Population of Indian Vulture besides accrued from 285 to 362 and that of red-headed vultures from 9 to 24. However, the census showed that the colonisation of white-rumped vultures continued to decline.
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