The white-backed vulture

The Telangana forest department requested some white-backed vultures from Gadchiroli for captive breeding at Hyderabad
The white-backed vulture has been listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.
The Telangana forest department is implementing a vulture conservation project, sponsored by Central Zoo Authority
The zoo is also among 10 zoos in the country selected for upgradation to global standards by the CZA. The government had sought 10 vultures from Gadchiroli, rhinoceros among other animals from zoos within the country and also internationally.
Numbers of white-backed vultures – once the most common large raptor in the world – have collapsed mainly due to the use of Diclofenac, a painkiller drug, in veterinary practice.
The vultures who eat carcasses of animals treated with diclofenac soon died of kidney failure. While the manufacture of veterinary diclofenac was banned in 2006, the drug formulated for humans is still available

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