Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal and ‘Bhopal Birds’ jointly organised a ‘Group Discussion of Experts on Status of Vultures in Madhya Pradesh and Conservation Measures’ on Sunday. In the beginning of the programme, In-charge of the museum & Scientist-B Manoj Kumar Sharma detailed about the need and importance of this day.
Main Speaker & Subject Expert of the programme Dilsher Khan, Member, Madhya Pradesh Vulture Conservation Society informed with a power point presentation about the species of vulture, efforts for conservation & census of vulture. Other experts Ramakant Dixit (Retd Forest
Officer), Sudesh Waghmare (Retd. Forest Officer), AK Khare (Retd Forest Officer), Pradeep Nandi (Director, NCHSE), Raghuraj Singh (Retd Officer), Rajesh Saxena (Senior Principal Scientist, MPCST) and Baby Naaz shared their experiences about the vultures.
Gautam Singh Yadav, Photographer, Anil K Sonparote, Projectionist, Virendra Mewada and Bhuvnesh Bairagi were present during the programme. Scientist-B of the museum Manik Lal Gupta proposed to include the programme on the awareness of vulture conservation.
The founder members of the Bhopal Birds Sangeeta Rajgeer and Mohd Khalique informed about the efforts done by the Bhopal Birds for the vulture conservation. After the group discussion, all subject experts suggested to aware the people of not using Diclofenac medicine on cattle. Programmes concluded with vote of thanks by Mohd Khalique, Bhopal Birds.