Vulture Awareness Day 2026 Marked at Panchkula, Haryana

The correct answer is 'From Crisis to Recovery - Conserving India's Vultures'. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated the national workshop under this theme at Panchkula in Haryana, and the release uses the same phrase again at the close to describe the journey the country has made in vulture conservation through science, policy, conservation breeding, safe landscapes and community participation. Options A, C and D are invented slogans; none of them appears in the release. Store the theme together with the rest of the event card, because that is how such questions are set: the occasion is International Vulture Awareness Day 2026, the venue is Panchkula in Haryana, the Minister is Bhupender Yadav, the Haryana Minister present is Rao Narbir Singh, and the partners are the Central Zoo Authority, the Haryana Forest and Wildlife Department, the Bombay Natural History Society and the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore.

The correct answer is 356. The release records that the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore housed that many vultures during 2025-26 and bred 35 chicks successfully in the same period. The rest of the centre's year is worth memorising with it, because any one line of it can be turned into a question: 87 vultures were released or contributed for reintroduction, 90 birds were transferred to other conservation-breeding institutions, and 1,222 participants from 22 institutions were trained there. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures that do not appear anywhere in the release. Remember also what the centre actually does: scientific husbandry, artificial incubation, veterinary care, breeding and genetic management, focused on the White-rumped, Long-billed and Slender-billed vultures. It is run jointly by the Haryana Forest Department and the Bombay Natural History Society.

The correct answer is Haryana. Pinjore lies in Haryana, and the centre there is described in the release as a joint initiative of the Haryana Forest Department and the Bombay Natural History Society. The Union Minister began the day with a visit to this facility before the workshop at Panchkula, which is also in Haryana. Options A, B and D name neighbouring States, and that geographical closeness is exactly what makes them plausible distractors in an examination hall. Two supporting details help fix the answer. First, the State's own Environment, Forest and Wildlife Minister, Rao Narbir Singh, spoke at the event and highlighted the work of the Pinjore centre. Second, he argued that conservation breeding should be judged not by the number of animals born but by healthy, genetically managed populations, scientific knowledge, technical capacity and recovery of the species in the wild.

The correct answer is 'Story of Jatayu: Saving India's Vulture'. The release says this coffee table book was brought out during the inaugural session at Panchkula. It records the country's vulture conservation story, moving from a falling population to a working conservation breeding programme built around the centre at Pinjore. Options B, C and D are invented titles and appear nowhere in the release. Books and reports released at government events are asked about very often, so note the title along with the occasion and the person releasing it. Alongside the book, a prize distribution was held for an online drawing competition and a digital photography competition on vulture conservation. The Minister used the occasion to press for more Vulture Safe Zones, for vulture-safe veterinary practices, for a supply of safe food, and for the technical capacity that species recovery in the wild will need.