White-rumped Vulture
(Gyps bengalensis)Species Fact Sheet
| IUCN Red List Status | Critically Endangered | Source: IUCN 2024 |
| Range | Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Southeast Asia | Source: MaMing and Xu 2015 |
Recent News
22 February 2025: "Vulture Population Soars in Madhya Pradesh, Tops National Chart" The Impressive Times (India).
19 February 2025: "Ministry, conservationists meet to boost vulture survivals" Khmer Times (Cambodia).
18 February 2025: "Three-Day Vulture Census Kick Starts Across Madhya Pradesh; State Is Home To 10,000 Vultures" The Free Press Journal (India).
17 February 2025: "Kingdom hosting vulture conservation forum" The Phnom Penh Post.
4 February 2025: "Vulture mounted with camera, transmitter spotted in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-affected Kanker" The New Indian Express.
1 February 2025: "Vulture tagged in Tadoba flies 3,500km across 5 states, lands in Chhattisgarh" Times of India.
23 January 2025: "2 leopards, dead vultures at Chanda TTC had H5N1 before Gorewada deaths" Times of India.
20 January 2025: "City to host Maha's second vulture breeding centre amid conservation push" Times of India.
18 January 2025: "56 bird species from Western Ghats and Goa face global conservation threats" Times of India.
17 January 2025: "GPS-tagged juvenile white-rumped vulture dies of electrocution in Pudukkottai" Indian Express.
16 January 2025: "GPS-tagged vulture's extraordinary 4,000-km journey cut short by electrocution" Midday.
14 January 2025: "Vulture's samples sent to Bhopal 2 weeks after it died" Times of India.
1 January 2025: “Lone vulture flies 4,000km to reach TN from Maharashtra” The New Indian Express.
31 December 2024: "Assam: Kamrup DC visits vulture conservation center at Rani, briefed on activities" India Today NE.
24 December 2024: "Yam Bahadur feeding vultures for 19 years" The Rising Nepal.
18 December 2024: “25 Vultures released from Haryana Breeding Centre” The Pioneer.
18 December 2024: “Taking wing again: 4 of 8 vultures released in the wild in 2020 survive”. Times of India.
4 December 2024: "State forms 11-member panel for vulture conservation" Times of India.
29 November 2024: "Urgent Call to Make Maharashtra 'Safe Zone' After Tadoba Vulture Deaths" Times of India.
12 November 2023: “Why Vultures Might Just Be the Smartest Birds Above the Block” The New York Times.
Bibliography
Clements et al 2012. “Vultures in Cambodia: population, threats and conservation” Bird Conservation International 23(1): 25 April 2012. https://www.cambridge.org...
Legrand et al 2024. “A first description of a breeding colony of white-rumped vultures Gyps bengalensis on the Cambodia/Laos border” Cambodian Journal of Natural History 1. https://www.researchgate.net...
MaMing and Xu 2015. “Status and threats to vultures in China” Vulture News 68: July 2015. https://www.ajol.info...
Shah et al 2024. "Protecting Endangered Species: The Role of International Environmental Law in Pakistan" Journal of Regional Studies Review 3(1). https://ojs.jrsr.org...
