Vulture restaurant

A vulture restaurant is a site where carrion is deposited for endangered vultures to feed on.[1] Vulture restaurants can also be called feeding sites,[2] feeding schemes,[3] and vulture safe zones.[4]

The survival of vultures in some areas is threatened by a variety of circumstances, including loss of habitat and diminishing food sources.[1] In Nepal, vulture deaths have been caused by the ingestion of diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory medication used to treat cattle on whose carcasses the vultures feed.[5] The goal of vulture restaurants is to provide a safe source of food to combat these threats in areas where vultures are known to roost.[6]

The first vulture restaurant was built in South Africa in 1966.[2] Vulture restaurants operate in a number of countries, including Nepal,[5] India,[7] Cambodia,[8] South Africa,[9] Swaziland,[1] and Spain.[10]

References
  1. Goldman, Jason G. (15 October 2014). "To save the scavengers, open up vulture restaurants". Conservation Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  2. Friedman, R. & P.J. Mundy. 1983. The use of “Restaurants” for the survival of vultures in South Africa. In: Wilbur, S. R. & J.A. Jackson (Eds). Vulture biology and management. University of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 345-355.
  3. Clinton-Eitniear, J., & Weyer, D. D. (1984). Sarcoramphus papa (Smith 1970), a large neotropical species found. Vulture News, 14-16.
  4. Chaudhary, A., Chaudhary, D. B., Baral, H. S., Cuthbert, R., Chaudhary, I., & Nepali, Y. B. (2010, June). Influence of safe feeding site on vultures and their nest numbers at Vulture Safe Zone, Nawalparasi. In Proceedings of the First National Youth Conference on Environment (pp. 1-6).
  5. Sharma, Gopal (7 February 2012). "Nepal's vulture "restaurants" for endangered birds". Reuters. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  6. Oro, D., Margalida, A., Carrete, M., Heredia, R., & Donázar, J. A. (2008). Testing the goodness of supplementary feeding to enhance population viability in an endangered vulture. PLoS One, 3(12), e4084.
  7. Pinjarkar, Vijay (6 September 2014). "Forest dept to open seventh vulture 'restaurant' in Gadchiroli today". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  8. "Vulture Restaurants". Wildlife Conservation Society. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  9. Webb, Jonathan (24 September 2014). "Hyenas, jackals feast at vulture restaurants". BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  10. Martín-Vega, Daniel; Baz, Arturo (10 August 2001). "Could the 'vulture restaurants' be a lifeboat for the recently rediscovered bone-skippers (Diptera: Piophilidae)?". Journal of Insect Conservation. 15 (747): 747–753. doi:10.1007/s10841-011-9429-0. S2CID 34337725.


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