Vultures : bringing them back from extinction

Population of vultures declined due to following reasons:

• Eating dead animals which have been treated by pain killers "diclofenac"
• Use of pesticide organochlorides
• DDT

which all are threatened in India:

1. white-backed vultures
2. long billed vultures
3. slender billed vulture

Latest developments:
Initiative by SAVE "Save the Asia's Vultures from Extinction"
Efforts by Indian Government viz. banning diclofenac, initiatives by IUCN led to control of declining population. As a result todays vultures population are stable