In a highly significant step forward for vulture conservation, India’s government has banned the use of Nimesulide – a widely ...
Mr Frank and his co-author Anant Sudarshan compared human death rates in Indian districts that once thrived with vultures to those with historically low vulture populations, both before and after ...
The loss of vultures is not just an environmental tragedy; it has far-reaching consequences for public health, agriculture, ...
During its migration, the bird exhibited signs of ill health and was rescued and treated twice, once in Chhattisgarh and ...
I write about the world of biology. Vultures in the Indian subcontinent dropped from a thriving population in the millions to a mere ... [+] 20,000 within a decade—then a public health crisis ...
In vultures, diclofenac causes kidney failure: Autopsies reveal organs coated with white crystals. The Indian die-off received a lot of attention because its downstream effects were so startling.
CHENNAI: A one-year-old captive-bred, juvenile white-rumped vulture, has taken a 4,000-km-long flight from the Tadoba ...
“They are like vultures and predators trying to prey on ... She talked about another case where a married man of Indian origin was taking sexual favours from a female international student ...