Paritosh Singh
8 – E
This is my blog on Cape vulture for the ISA activity. Vultures are nature’s most successful scavengers and play a vital role in our ecosystem by cleaning up dead carcasses. They are uniquely adapted to a scavenging lifestyle. Presently 61% vulture species are threatened with extinction. Cape vulture is one of these species which is on a verge of extinction. The main reason for this is poisoning of food. Humans misunderstand these birds and often poison them. Vultures are also hunted by poachers on a large scale. Many vultures get killed every year due to collisions with wind turbines. Declining of food sources and habitat due to deforestation and urbanisation is another reason for their threatening. Now is the time to do something, to take measures to save them or later we will have to suffer a lot. Some of the measures to help conserve them are – .Breeding sites should be better protected from disturbance. .The provision of providing poison-free food and bone fragments to these birds adopted by many restaurants should be spread. .Hunting should be banned and illegal poaching should be checked. .The most important actions are awareness and educating programmes in rural areas.