The concept of
vulture restaurant is a unique concept for the continent Asia .
In Europe and Africa , there have been already
such restaurants successfully operated to provide safe food for vultures. The main
character and success of our activities is that the restaurant for vultures is
managed by local communities. Any income generated will be used to manage the
restaurant, visitor centre and invested in activities that provide further
economic incentives to local or on infrastructure for example Schools,
hospitals, and social welfare program like poverty alleviation.
Dead bodies of
cattle are collected and put at a place where vultures come to feed on in large
numbers. In this process some vultures will be feeding, others will be resting
and some flying in the sky. Vulture restaurant includes an observation house in
which observers are well concealed from the feeding vultures but will have the
advantage of seeing the vultures feeding on a carcass at a close proximity.
Visitors enjoy seeing the acrobatics performed by vultures in the area. They
will also enjoy seeing more than one variety of vultures and other birds of
prey in the vicinity.
We have set up a Visitor
Centre to give information to visitors on diverse aspects of these majestic
creatures. With your support, the centre will feature other birds, mammals and
natural history of the forest. There will be small section to cover the
cultural history of the Kumal people, the local inhabitant of the project site.
The final results
of this novel approach will have significant output on various sectors eg participatory
bio-diversity conservation, valuing religious sentiments, promotion of tourism,
education and awareness and economic incentives.
The specific objectives of
the project are:
1)
Conserve the Critically Endangered species of vultures and
other biodiversity in the area.
2)
Run Vulture Restaurant and a visitor centre under management
of the organization with the help of Khairaniban community forest committee.
3)
Promote domestic and international tourism by highlighting
the Vulture Restaurant, boating and sunbath on the Kaligandaki River
4)
Part of economic returns generated to be managed by the organization
for improving their livelihood. Some will be kept for maintenance of all the
structures.
5)
Capacity building of local people and their engagement in
self employment and vulture conservation at grassroots level.
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