Indian Vulture●Indian vulture is an Old World vulture native to India, Pakistan and Nepal.
●It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population severely declined.
●Indian vultures died of kidney failure caused by diclofenac poisoning.
●Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction (Save) programme announced that it expects to start releasing captive-bred birds into the wild by 2016.
●Two captive Himalayan griffons were released in June, 2016 from Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre, Pinjore as part of Asia's first vulture re-introduction program.
