Bird
White-rumped vulture
Gyps bengalensis
On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened animals listIUCN: Critically Endangered, A2abce+4abce, assessed 2021
Image: Ravi Sangeetha · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Desert National Park, Sudasari, Rajasthan, 24 December 2013 · Cropped by the creator; resized
What the sources say
- RajasthanThe Board lists it for the whole of Rajasthan.[1]
- IndiaVultures dispose of animal carcasses. The government's 2006 plan warns that without them, rotting carcasses and feral dogs increase, with a higher risk of rabies and other livestock diseases.[12]
- IndiaGyps vultures fell by 97% in India by 2005. The decline was first recorded at Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Rajasthan, between the mid 1980s and mid 1990s. The plan links it to the veterinary drug diclofenac.[12]
Sources
- Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Animals of Rajasthan (39 animals, with localities) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
- Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India (April 2006). Action Plan for Vulture Conservation in India (government). Government plan.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
The coloured tag before each fact shows where it was verified. A fact checked for India or the world is not assumed to hold for Rajasthan.
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