INDIA’S Zoroastrians, or Parsees, have installed solar reflectors in their Towers of Silence in Bombay to help dispose of their dead after a decline in the number of vultures who scavenge the corpses in keeping with tradition.
The Parsee council has installed eight giant solar reflectors in the 350-year-old towers overlooking the city to hasten decomposition. It is also starting a vulture aviary on the premises with help from a British expert.
The council has asked Jemina Perry-Jones, of the National Birds of Prey Centre near Gloucester, to establish the aviary for white-backed and long-billed vultures near the towers, as the birds were dying in large numbers of a mysterious disease.
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