Interventions to minimize species threats at the multi-stakeholders level and augmenting conservation of threatened vulture species in Tamil Nadu, India

The project aims to achieve a realistic key action required to eliminate the threats faced by four threatened vulture species found in the State of Tamil Nadu, India, through intervention at policy level and counter human induced causes with the support of dairy companies and local stakeholders. Species recovery plan to be renewed with the support of the Van Tienhoven Foundation.

Three major activities of the project are 1. To prepare a Conservation Action Plan for reviving the vulture population 2. To adopt and promote vulture safe drug 3. To frame mandatory rules and promote ethical practices to make avail safe food for the vultures. The methods are to conduct consultation meeting involving stakeholders to draft an Action Plan for vulture conservation involving taxon experts; and to involve dairy companies and cattle owners for using vulture safe drug only; and to introduce the practice of leaving the safe cattle carcasses as it is for natural sanitary workers by way of intervention at policy level.