This Action Plan for Vulture Conservation in India, 2020-2025, rightly advocates the prevention of misuse of veterinary non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) by ensuring their sale only on prescription.
Humanity’s ongoing destruction of wildlife will lead to a shrinking of nature, with the average body size of animals falling by a quarter, a study predicts. The researchers estimate that more than 1,000
Kozhikode: Conservation of critically-endangered vultures has received a fillip with forest officials and experts from three south Indian states deciding to make coordinated efforts to create a vulture
An increase in rehabilitation cases in December 2018 and January 2019 observed by NGO VulPro is a sign that an environmental disaster is looming, says the organisation that works to safeguard Africa's
AHMEDABAD: Since 2007, the number of avian scavengers in Gujarat has dropped by 43%. The 2018 census reveals the trend continues and between 2016 and 2018 the number has declined by 18%. The 2016 census
Nagpur: Over a decade ago, 99% population of most of the nine vulture species found in India had declined. But in tribal Gadchiroli district, their numbers have been steadily rising and as per monitoring
The future of the vulnerable Cape Vulture hangs in the balance as older design power lines continue to kill or maim birds, non-governmental organisation VulPro said this week. In April, it recorded
E. coli in the wild birds became immune to some drugs within a few months Escherichia coli, a pathogen seen in over 90% of Egyptian vultures that migrate to northwest India to spend the winter, tend
The continued poisoning of species of critically endangered vultures will soon see them extinct, four organizations warned yesterday. Birdlife International, The Peregrine Fund, Nature Kenya and the
Experts urge government to restrict use of anti-inflammatory drugs in cattle Joint effort by various stakeholders, including the Forest Department, scientists, conservation NGOs, veterinary professionals
