☑️Vultures
✔️Large carrion-eating birds, mainly found in tropics and subtropics; 9 species in India.
✔️Significance: Clean environment by consuming carcasses, controlling wildlife diseases.
✔️Conservation Status: Protected under Schedule I, Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
✔️Threats: Habitat loss, food scarcity, diclofenac poisoning, electrocution.
✔️Conservation Initiatives: Ban on diclofenac, ketoprofen, aceclofenac; Action Plan for Vulture Conservation (2020–25)
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