Action Plan For Vulture Conservation 2020-2025

• 30 Oct 2020

• National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has approved an Action Plan for Vulture Conservation 2020-2025.
• The new plan has laid out strategies and actions to stem the decline in vulture population, especially of the three Gyps species:

• Oriental white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
• Slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris)
• Long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus)
• Under this plan, five states (Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu) will have vulture conservation and breeding centre each.
• There will be established at least one vulture-safe zone in each state for the conservation of the remnant populations in that state.
• Four rescue centres will be established in Pinjore (Haryana), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Guwahati (Assam) and Hyderabad (Telangana).
• National Board for Wildlife is a statutory Board constituted officially in 2003 under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. It is chaired by the Prime Minister of India.