Vulture Conservation Project
 Vulture Restaurant Diclofenac Free Feeding Palace at Nagarparkar

DDS has initiated a project titled Vulture Restaurant (Feeding Place) at Nagarparkar funded by the UNDP –GEF Small Grant Program. The project was developed after conducting a survey in October, 2008 throughout Sindh province to find the existence of Vulture, found in Nagarparkar. The supported project is started from February, 2009. The project is aimed at:
• To conserve a viable population of Gyps bengalensis in a safe and secure environment.
• To provide regular feeding to the Vulture population.
• Monitoring of wild populations
• Lobbying for the complete removal of diclofenac from the environment and.

• To build staff capacity for the eventual release of captive-bred vultures.
It is expected at the end of project implementation that
• 50% reduction in the use of diclofenac in the animals in all U/Cs of taluka Nagarparkar in one year’s period and information enhanced to 5000 local community people in Taluka Nagarparkar.
The unprecedented decline of Gyps vultures in South Asia since the 1990s has seen the introduction of a range of conservation initiatives. Significant among these has been the establishment of conservation breeding and feeding (restaurants) centres. There are currently two such facilities in India, and they hold valuable populations of the three species affected: Oriental White-backed Vulture Gyps bengalensis, Long-billed Vulture G. indicus and Slender-billed Vulture G.tenuirostris.
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Rationale
Considering the declining situation of inhabitants of Sindh in terms of human resource and infrastructure
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Objectives
1.To work for integrated socio-economic development of the neglected segmen  (More)
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