Consider the following pairs: Item - Correct Description 1. Slender-billed vulture - Schedule I species under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 2. Diclofenac - A veterinary NSAID banned for veterinary use in 2006, identified as the primary cause of the vulture population crash 3. BNHS Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre, Rani - Established in 2007, where the released vultures were bred 4. Jatayu Soft Release Centre - Located in Kaziranga National Park's core zone in Assam How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?
Environment · 10 Aug 2026
slender-billed vulture release Assam
About this question
Why in news
Five captive-bred slender-billed vultures and five white-rumped vultures were released in Assam on August 7, 2026, marking the world's first release of captive-bred slender-billed vultures after nearly two decades of ex-situ breeding efforts.
Why for UPSC
Match-the-pairs format tests whether aspirants can catch an added, unsupported specificity (exact location detail) rather than a wholesale factual error - a subtler UPSC distractor technique often used with location-based pairs.
Prelims summary
The slender-billed vulture (Schedule I, WPA 1972) was bred at BNHS's Rani centre (est. 2007) and released via the Jatayu Soft Release Centre in Biswanath district, Assam, following the 2006 diclofenac ban that caused the original population crash.
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