Special vehicle to transport rescued vulture from Kanniyakumari to Jodhpur
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Published Jan 20, 2026
Chennai, Sep 16 (IANS) A vulture, safeguarded from the road in Tamil Nadu’s Kanniyakumari a couple of months prior, will be moved to the Machia Organic Park in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur in a uniquely planned vehicle.
The vehicle will have an open pressed wood confine for the Cinereous vulture (Aegipius monachus), which was restored at the Udayagiri Organic Park in Kanniyakumari after its salvage. The enclosure will likewise have thick cushioning to forestall shock to the vulture during the 2,600-km-long excursion, which will begin on September 25 and require four days.
A specialist from Untamed life Organization of India, a veterinarian from Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Save in Tirunelveli, and a Woodland Division staff part who has been taking care of the vulture will go with it on the excursion.
The specialist has led a recce of the spots where the vehicle would end during the excursion and the driver is coordinated by the Udayagiri Park authorities that the vehicle shouldn’t go past a speed of 50 km. The movement will be done solely after the dim and will cover a distance of 600 km each day.
The vehicle will leave on September 25 and will arrive at Hosur by early morning and will end there. The excursion will be continued the following day and will finish up at a vulture recovery focus in Pune and will stay there till the, prior night arriving at Vadodara the following morning.
A #vulture, rescued from the street in Tamil Nadu’s #Kanniyakumari a few months ago, will be transported to the Machia Biological Park in Rajasthan’s #Jodhpur in a specially-designed vehicle.
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— IANS (@ians_india) September 16, 2022
The vulture will be moved to the Machia Natural Park where it will adapt for a month and afterward will be let off at Keru town. This town is noted for unloading steers remains and an enormous number of vultures assemble day to day.
A GPS transmitter is as of now introduced on the body of the vulture and will guarantee its 24X7 observing.
As per a senior authority of Udayagiri Natural Park, the state Backwoods Division has given extreme attention to detail to the vulture and that it has recaptured wellbeing subsequent to being saved from the road a month prior.
