Asia's vultures recover after drug ban following a 99.9% population crash linked to cattle painkiller diclofenac. The post ...

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Asian vultures are at risk of lethal kidney failure if they feed from carcasses of a cow that died up to four days after treatment with the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac. Writing in the Journal of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cattle painkiller introduced in the 1990s led to the unexpected crash of India's vulture populations, which still haven't ...

Poisoning continues to pose a serious threat to vultures in Nepal, where the birds’ population is only starting to recover from a massive plunge in the 1990s due to an earlier poisoning crisis. In ...

Today saw a glimmer of hope for the three species of Asian vulture threatened with extinction. Oriental white-backed, long-billed, and slender-billed vultures in South Asia have suffered one of the ...

The primary threat to vultures is the presence of toxins in the carrion they consume. Losses of vultures can allow other scavengers to flourish, and proliferation of such scavengers could bring ...