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FIVE YEARS MOU SIGNED FOR VULTURE CONSERVATION BREEDING CENTRE
FIVE YEARS MOU SIGNED FOR VULTURE CONSERVATION BREEDING CENTRE
30 Aug 2011

A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) among Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC), Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN) and National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) was signed for construction of new colony aviary and overall management of Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre (VCBC) at Kasara, Chitwan National Park on 30 August 2011. Mr. Krishna Prasad Acharya, Director General, DNPWC; Dr. Hum Gurung, Chief Executive Officer, BCN and Mr. Juddha Bahadur Gurung, Member Secretary, NTNC signed and agreed that this will be a great step in conserving critically endangered vulture species in Nepal and South-Asia as well. The financial support for the new aviary construction and operation has come from Royal Society for the Protection of Birds/Darwin Initiative, UK.

Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre was established in 2008 in Kasara, Chitwan National Parks to conduct captive breeding of critically endangered vulture species that have gone catastrophic decline across South-Asia.  Since then, VCBC is running in close coordination and cooperation among these above three parties. Recently, VCBC is facilitated with one colony aviary and two holding aviaries along with laboratory and CCTV facilities. Now, there are 60 White-rumped Vultures in VCBC.