Vulture restaurant in Kawasoti serving as centre to study biological diversity
The Jatayu Restaurant, established 17 years ago at Kawasoti-13 of East Nawalparasi, is serving as a centre to study biological diversity and eco-tourism.
Jatayu Restaurant, which was established 18 years ago in Kawasoti Municipality -13 of Pithauli, in East Nawalparasi district, to protect endangered vultures, is now emerging as a tourist destination and a biodiversity study centre.
KAWASOTI: The Jatayu Restaurant, established 17 years ago at Kawasoti-13 of East Nawalparasi, is serving as a centre to study the biological diversity and eco-tourism. Students and researchers in particular have frequented the facility feeding the vultures to carry out a study on biological diversity, eco-tourism and forest and environment. They also observed lifestyles and […]
DB Chaudhary of Kawasoti Municipality-13 Laukhani of East Nawalparasi was the only man in the village to bring the concept of Jatayu Restaurant to conserve vultures. It has been 15 years since and it has been a complete success now.
In those days, people had a different view on vulture conservation. They had various questions like, why protect the dirty birds? What do they give us? It was very difficult to explain. And there were very few who joined the conservation campaign.
KATHMANDU: The vulture restaurant that was established in 2006 AD in Pithauli, Nawalpur for the conservation of rare bird species, vulture, is being developed
NAWALPUR, Dec 20: Basudev Poudel The vulture restaurant that was established in 2006 AD in Pithauli, Nawalpur for the conservation of rare bird species, vulture, is being developed as a tourism destination.
The site has been developed as a destination for those aspiring to study on birds, particularly vulture and enjoying eco-tourism. As part of the campaign for vulture protection, local community of Pithauli took the initiative to establish the world's first vulture restaurant in 2006.
Conservationist and chairperson of Nawalparasi Vulture Conservation Committee DB Chaudhary said the community-managed restaurant has gradually become a tourism hotspot, especially for those interested in birds tourism and eco tourism.
Claiming that number of vulture has increased with the setup of the restaurant; he said domestic and foreign tourists from different countries are increasingly turning to the restaurant for vulture observation and research. Research has shown that the trend of vulture extinction however has increased for the past two decades.
Use of diclofenac in the treatment of ailing cattle has been one of the main reasons behind extinction of vulture, conservationists said. Vulture conservation has seen trouble in lack of their peculiar food of late.
The trend of rearing livestock has sharply declined lately and the cattle once dead are being disposed in a different manner. It has resulted in the crisis of food for vulture, conservationists added. It is shared that nine out of 23 species of vulture are found in Nepal.
The vulture restaurant that was established in 2006 AD in Pithauli, Nawalpur for the conservation of rare bird species, vulture, is being developed as a tourism destination.