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Pakistan’s vulture conservation breeding centre
Like India and Nepal, Pakistan has it own vulture conservation breeding centre in order to preserve and restore its populations of Gyps vultures. The centre is in Changa Manga forest, approximately 80km southwest of Lahore. A large colony aviary houses a small, but important population, of oriental white-backed vultures. The WWF Pakistan, Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department, Hawk Conservancy Trust and Environment Agency Abu Dhabi who work together on the project, plan to expand the white-backed vulture population and the number of aviaries to contribute to SAVE’s breeding and release programme in south Asia. Khan and Murn (2011) describe the Pakistan vulture conservation breeding centre and the theory and techniques behind conservation breeding centres in a paper published in The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences.
Read more about Pakistan’s efforts to conserve its vultures.
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