Archive · 9 Dec 2025
Jharkhand to establish first vulture conservation centre
Jharkhand is going to open its first vulture conservation and breeding centre soon.
The government has approved a plan to work with a group called BNHS to help run the centre.
The centre was first approved in 2009, but it couldn't start because of some problems.
Now, they will fix the centre and bring vultures from other places to breed them.
Vultures are important birds that are in danger because of a medicine called diclofenac.
There are about 400-450 vultures in Jharkhand, and the new centre will help them grow in number.
They will also start counting the vultures in the state soon.
Jharkhand's first vulture conservation and breeding centre to be established in Muta, 36 km from Ranchi.
State cabinet approved MoU with BNHS for technical support to run the centre.
Centre infrastructure completed in 2013 with a main cage, hospital, and care units.
Vulture population in Jharkhand estimated between 400-450, with six species present.
Centre aims to breed vultures and increase their dwindling population due to diclofenac poisoning.
- Who
- Jharkhand state government and Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
- What
- Establishment of a vulture conservation and breeding centre
- When
- Approval given on December 9, operational by next year
- Where
- Muta, 36 km from Ranchi, Jharkhand
- Why
- To conserve and increase the dwindling vulture population in India
- Location
- Muta, 36 km from Ranchi
- Infrastructure Cost
- Rs 41 lakh
- Vulture Species in Jharkhand
- 6 (White-backed, Long-billed, Himalayan, Egyptian, Red-headed, Cinereous)
- Current Vulture Population in Jharkhand
- 400-450
- National Vulture Population
- Around 10,000
- Threat to Vultures
- Diclofenac poisoning
- Conservation Effort
- Vulture restaurant in Koderma
- Training
- 4 workers trained at Pinjore centre in 2015
