Officials snub calls to save egg of endangered vulture

A roadside tree in Shuklagandaki Municipality where a pair of slender-billed vultures had built nest and laid an egg has been felled for widening the road.

Hemanta Dhakal—a bird conservationist and researcher affiliated with the International Union for Conservation of Nature—often visited Shuklagandaki of Tanahun district from Pokhara on Saturdays to inspect and study slender-billed vulture, locally called Sano Khairo Gidda.