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How a village in Maharashtra is helping vultures make a big comeback

How a village in Maharashtra is helping vultures make a big comeback

Aug 08, 2021, at 12:30 am

In the 1980s, India was home to around 40 million vultures. By 2017, it declined to 19,000. However, Chirgaon, a village in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, has been working on reviving its local vulture population. The village's vulture population has gone up from 22 in 1999-2000 to 249 this year. Mongabay-India writer Sneha Mahale  reports