Vulture Awareness: Literal or Figurative?
Channel: Charlotte Pierce
Date: 2022-10-17

A Conversation with Manoj Gautam

Full article, livestream player & show notes: https://piercepress.com/vulture-awareness-nepal

I am known as a renegade conservationist, and I am probably adding justification for this reputation with the level of candor in this article. I do see that among the threats to these majestic, life-saving, high-soaring, once-abundant but now critically endangered birds are their supposed protectors.

Self-styled vulture conservationists, authorities, and NGOs have established agency over the protection of vultures by pushing aside and appropriating local communities’ authentic initiatives and credentials. All the while, the term ‘community participation’ remains absent from their glossy annual reports. 

Join the conversation for my take on what needs to happen in Nepal and how it applies to global conservation and habitat & species restoration.

~ MG

(rescheduled from 10/10)