“Banning the manufacture of Diclofenac Sodium has not solved the problem” CHANDIGARH: “Ninety-nine per cent of India’s vulture population has perished in the last 15 years owing to the anti-inflammatory drug Diclofenac Sodium, the manufacture of which was banned in 2006,” says Dr. Vibhu Prakash, Principal Project Director of the Vulture Conservation and Breeding Centre (VCBC) at Joghpur, 25 km from here. Vultures find a place in Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, the country’s only legal framework to protect endangered species, which prohibits hunting and trafficking of endangered species. But the drastic fall in the population of the bird is neither due to hunting nor lack of food; the bird has been falling prey to the Diclofenac Sodium affected carcasses. Carcasses of cattle treated with the drug when consumed...
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