The near-extinction of India’s vultures due to diclofenac poisoning triggered an ecological and public health crisis. As ...

Nine years on, Indian vulture declines have slowed ... pathogens—which die in vulture stomachs—to other animals, both wild and domesticated. By eating wildebeest placenta, Thomsett tells ...

Notably, the project was announced in 2020 under India’s five-year action plan for vulture conservation by the Ministry of ...

The same cast of characters features in most wildlife conservation campaigns: majestic tigers, adorable pandas or other creatures that tug human heartstrings. Images of the blood-splattered bills ...

In July 2015, the Indian government restricted the sale ... Bowden also warned that releasing captive-bred vultures into the ...

For example, when vulture populations declined dramatically on the Indian subcontinent there were drastic increases in rat and feral dog populations. As a consequence of those increases in rat and dog ...

Sudarshan, and Eyal Frank of the University of Chicago, co-authors of the upcoming American Economic Review paper, compared maps of vulture habitats to health records for more than 600 Indian ...

In India, vulture populations collapsed by 99.9%, the sharpest decline of any animal ever recorded, in the 'Indian Vulture Crisis'. Debbie Pain and Chris Bowden describe the urgent international ...

The 2025 synchronised vulture population estimation, the third of its kind in the South Indian landscape since 2023, has yielded promising results, particularly in the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary.

Researchers from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute ... have been proven safe for vultures at doses they might encounter in the wild. A drug called diclofenac, similar to nimesulide, which ...