Overview
- The birds were rescued in Vidisha, Betul, Mandla and Seoni and released only after recovering at the Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre in Bhopal.
- All five carry GPS-GSM transmitters, with tagging conducted under Wildlife SOS veterinary supervision alongside forest officials.
- The telemetry effort will track landscape use to locate roosts and feeding sites and to flag high-risk zones such as electrocution, poisoning and habitat degradation.
- The cohort includes four Indian vultures that typically remain local and one Cinereous vulture that migrates along the Central Asian Flyway.
- The release follows a 2025 Halali effort in which three of six captive-bred vultures died shortly after, prompting more cautious, data-driven monitoring.