Vultures Restaurant to open in Pokhara

By Animal Rights Nepal

A vulture restaurant is soon going to open in Pokhara, a resort town in mid Nepal. It is good news to all the animal rights activists and environmentalists. The main objective of proposed restaurant is the preservation of vulture and environment for a good ecosystem.

Images: Krishna Mani Baral
The restaurent is formally opening on January 18, 2010 at Ghachwok village. For the existence of vultures, it is important to provide them fresh and healthy meat, said Birds Conservation Nepal Chief Executive Officer Dr Hum Bahadur Gurung. According to him, this restaurant will be run by local community.
Eight species of vultures are found in Nepal, the white-rumped and slender-billed vultures are categorized as critically endangered. The numbers of both species have plunged in Nepal and India and scientists say the decline is largely due to farmers dosing their cattle with diclofenac, a drug used to treat inflammation, poisoning the scavenging birds.
All eight species vultures which are found Nepal are found in Pokhara valley so it is good news restaurant for vultures is open in pokhara Animal Rights Nepal founder Krishna Mani Baral said.
Studies have found that last 15 years 95 percent of South Asia’s vulture population has vanished. The fall in their population has been linked to an anti-inflammatory drug used by farmers to treat livestock. Residues of the drug in animal carcasses poisoned the vultures in large numbers.