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Mumbai Wildlife Foundation Travel

editor — Wed, 17 May 2017 16:33:50 +0000

In ancient Persia where the religion was founded, pre-Islam, it was almost certainly the custom to leave dead bodies untended on some open ground where they would be eaten rapidly by wolves, jackals and vultures. The alternatives were impractical anyway. Presumably, wood for funeral pyres would have been scarce. Rivers would have been seasonal. And the often arid, rocky ground would not have lent itself to easy burial. In India, where most Parsis settled in the 8th century having been ousted from Persia, the process became ritualised at stone towers built specially for the purpose of encouraging vultures to consume

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World Wildlife Travel Tours

editor — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:59:13 +0000

I’d been talking to experts at the Bombay Natural History Society (BHNS), the RSPB’s equivalent in India, and I had mentioned the Deonar tip. I knew that it once had thousands of vultures circling over it and pouncing down on to its scraps of food. But they had all died out. Or so the BHNS people believed. I thought I should check it out, and at least find out what birds had taken over from the once omnipresent vultures. The society gave me a driver and a vehicle for the morning to get there. They were not very optimistic about

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Wildlife World Travel

editor — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:44:49 +0000

Undeterred and ignoring the ‘no entry’ signs (I think they were only in Greek) and the helicopter landing pad we passed, I drove along a military road until stopped by a soldier with something like an AK47. He was coming towards our hire car. And the AK47 was aimed our way. Having spotted my binoculars – a dubious piece of equipment to hold at a military base in times of tension – as I scanned through the open car window for birds, the gun barrel was getting closer by the second and the soldier was now shouting, really quite loudly.

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