On March 16, 2023, a ground-breaking event occurred in Nepal with the first-ever tagging of a Slender-billed Vulture. A team from Bird Conservation Nepal, Jatayu restaurant, and the senior conservation scientist of RSPB Dr John Mallord successfully trapped, tagged, and released one Slender-billed Vulture at the Vulture Safe Feeding Site in Kawasoti, Nawalpur. The team…

On March 11, 2023, a vulture conservation milestone event took place in Nepal, immediately after the successful conclusion of the SAVE meeting. The last remaining captive-reared White-rumped Vultures from the Nepal breeding were all released, having been fitted with GPS/GSM Ornitela tags on their backs and aluminium red leg rings with individual alphanumeric codes. In…

On 9th and 10th March 2023 the first face to face SAVE meeting since 2019 took place in Nawalpur, Nepal. Dr Maheshwar Dhakal, Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) chaired the opening session, which was hosted by Dr Ganesh Pant, Ecologist at DNPWC. The program was officially inaugurated by…

We are pleased to highlight a new factsheet produced by the NSAIDs Working Group of the CMS Raptors MoU. https://www.cms.int/raptors/en/page/non-steroidal-anti-inflammatory-drugs-and-vultures This resource can be used to highlight the threat these drugs pose, and has key references and links.

The SAVE online open day took place on 24th January and attracted over 250 registrations from followers from around the world. After introductions and summaries from our SAVE Chair and SAVE Programme manager, we had updates from country partners, followed by special talks on themes such as tagging methodology, a new Vulture Safe Zone initiative,…

We are very excited to announce that the SAVE Open Day will take place on Tuesday 24th January 2023 and is now open for registration. The programme (GMT) is shown below: 7.30-7.55 Welcome, Opening address and Highlights of 2022 7.55-8.40 Country updates 2022 from Pakistan, Nepal and India with Q&A 8.50-9.30 Country updates 2022 from…

The veterinary painkiller drug aceclofenac very quickly metabolises into diclofenac in cattle, and an important new study by the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) and collaborators shows that the same is true in water buffalo as well as in cows. Diclofenac used as a painkiller for cattle (an now banned for veterinary use in many…

On 20 October 2022, the first ever critically endangered White-rumped Vulture (WRV) was satellite tagged in the Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, in the heart of Vulture Safe Zone 1 of Bangladesh. The tagging was done by a team of experts comprising officials from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and IUCN Bangladesh. Prior…

With the growing emphasis and need for GSM and PTT tagging of vultures to understand survival rates as well as movements and the safety of areas for releases of captive vultures from the breeding programme, it is crucial to fit the tags as efficiently and safely as possible. An IUCN Vulture Specialist Group workshop held…

White-rumped vulture Changa manga, Pakistan Saturday 3rd September was International Vulture Awareness Day (IVAD), and partners of SAVE were busy in all six range countries spreading awareness of vultures and the challenges they face. In Bangladesh, the Forest Department and IUCN Bangladesh hosted an event at the Hoimanti Auditorium, in Dhaka. This event was graced…