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
- ^ a b c Goldman, Jason G. (15 October 2014). "To save the scavengers, open up vulture restaurants". Conservation Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Clinton-Eitniear, J., & Weyer, D. D. (1984). Sarcoramphus papa (Smith 1970), a large neotropical species found. Vulture News, 14-16.
- ^ 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).
- ^ a b Sharma, Gopal (7 February 2012). "Nepal's vulture "restaurants" for endangered birds". Reuters. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Pinjarkar, Vijay (6 September 2014). "Forest dept to open seventh vulture 'restaurant' in Gadchiroli today". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ "Vulture Restaurants". Wildlife Conservation Society. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
- ^ Webb, Jonathan (24 September 2014). "Hyenas, jackals feast at vulture restaurants". BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ 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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