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White-rumped Vulture

(Gyps bengalensis)

Species Fact Sheet

IUCN Red List StatusCritically EndangeredSource: IUCN 2024
RangeBangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Southeast AsiaSource: 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...