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Tag: Red-headed Vulture

After the crash: how can we rebuild South Asia’s vulture population?

After the crash: how can we rebuild South Asia’s vulture population?

September 10, 2017February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 5 Comments

Asian vultures have undergone a catastrophic decline in recent decades, with populations crashing by as much as 99%. In India and Nepal, four of nine vulture species are Critically Endangered, largely as a result of poisoning by a drug commonly used to treat livestock, diclofenac. Since 2006, diclofenac has been banned in these countries for […]

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POLL: Should veterinary Diclofenac be banned to save vultures?

POLL: Should veterinary Diclofenac be banned to save vultures?

July 12, 2017February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 5 Comments

Vultures are declining world-wide, but Europe used to be a safe place. 3 years ago this changed radically when approval was given to the commercialisation of veterinary diclofenac. Today, we launch a new international campaign in Spain, Portugal and Italy that aims to ban the drug that could wipe out Europe’s vultures… just as it […]

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Can we bring vultures back to Thailand?

Can we bring vultures back to Thailand?

February 14, 2017December 23, 2019 Supertrooper Leave a comment

It’s the most dramatic bird decline ever recorded – faster even than those that robbed our planet of the Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes migratorius or the Dodo Raphus cucullatus. Since the 1990s, a staggering 99% of the vulture population in Asia have disappeared – a drop from several million to just a few thousand. As a […]

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