{"id":35505,"date":"2021-08-19T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/aug\/19\/india-critically-endangered-vultures-wild-release-aoe"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T05:15:36","slug":"born-to-be-wild-indias-first-captive-bred-endangered-vultures-are-set-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35505","title":{"rendered":"Born to be wild: India\u2019s first captive-bred endangered vultures are set free"},"content":{"rendered":"

Numbers of the country\u2019s carrion-loving birds dropped by over 97% in the 1990s. Now, a successful breeding scheme is giving them a boost<\/p>\n

In February, the doors of an aviary in West Bengal\u2019s Buxa tiger reserve were flung open. Eight critically endangered<\/a> captive-bred white-rumped vultures cautiously emerged and within minutes were mingling with wild vultures, devouring the meat of carcasses left out by a team of researchers from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS).<\/p>\n

The birds were raised in a nearby breeding centre by BNHS, led by assistant director Sachin Ranade, as part of efforts to save India\u2019s Gyps vultures. Gradually, some of the released vultures perched on trees with their wild cousins, while others returned to the wire-mesh aviary<\/a> where they had spent the previous few months getting acclimatised to their surroundings.<\/p>\n

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Numbers of the country\u2019s carrion-loving birds dropped by over 97% in the 1990s. Now, a successful breeding scheme is giving them a boostIn February, the doors of an aviary in West Bengal\u2019s Buxa tiger reserve were flung open. Eight critically endangered…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2420,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,337,456,372,464,65,62,466,299,61,889,94,42,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-birds","category-conservation","category-drugs","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-india","category-pollution","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-veterinary-medicine","category-wildlife","category-world-news","category-zoos"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35506,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35505\/revisions\/35506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}