{"id":15796,"date":"2023-10-12T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T06:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15796"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:23:35","slug":"egyptian-vulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/egyptian-vulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Vulture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Egyptian Vulture:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Egyptian Vulture (Neophorn Percnopterus) is a <strong>native bird of Europe, Central Asia and Africa<\/strong>, and in winter, it travels towards Asian countries, including India.<\/li>\n<li>The residential sub-species of Egyptian vulture is Neophron Percnopterus Ginginianus, which resides in India throughout the year.<\/li>\n<li>It inhabits <strong>open, arid areas near humans<\/strong>, with plenty of food options.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These are monogamous, migrating between breeding seasons as a pair. They build a large nest and will constantly replenish it during the breeding season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats :<\/strong> One of the primary threats facing this species is illegal poisoning aimed at carnivores.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN: Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Vulture species in India:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>9 species ofvultures<\/strong> are found in India.<\/li>\n<li>Of these nine species, 4 are listed as Critically Endangered species of Vultures and one as endangered species in IUCN red list of endangered species.<\/li>\n<li>Species of Vultures found in India and their <strong>IUCN Conservation Status:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Indian Vulture<\/strong> or Long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus)-Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indian White-backed Vulture<\/strong> (Gyps bengalensis)-Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<li><strong>Red-headed Vulture<\/strong> (Sarcogypscalvus)- Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slender-billed Vulture<\/strong> (Gyps tenuirostris)- Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<li><strong>Egyptian Vulture<\/strong> (Neophronpercnopterus)- Endangered<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cincerous Vulture<\/strong> (Aegypiusmonachus)- Near Threatened<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bearded Vulture<\/strong> (Gypaetusbarbatus)-Near Threatened<\/li>\n<li><strong>Himalayan Vulture<\/strong> (Gyps himalayansis)-Near Threatened<\/li>\n<li><strong>Griffon Vulture<\/strong> (Gyps fulvus)- Least Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an international organization dedicated to the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, including biodiversity and ecosystems. It is the world&#8217;s largest and most comprehensive global environmental organization, and it provides valuable guidance, research, and assessments related to the conservation of species and the environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/pune-news\/endangered-egyptian-vulture-rescued-101696876016075.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Endangered Egyptian Vulture rescued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Vulture is a native bird of Europe, Central Asia and Africa, and in winter, it travels towards Asian countries, including India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}