Vultures
Turkey Vulture
The Turkey Vulture is one of the most common vultures found in America. Read on for some interesting facts about the Turkey Vulture.
Vulture Numbers Are Cut to the Bone
Extinction fears for a scavenger vital to preserving ecosystems.
Cattle Drug Blamed As India's Vultures Near Extinction
Conservation groups battle pharmaceutical firms over new, safer treatment.
Parsi Tradition Dying Out for Lack of Vultures
It is one the most poignant images in India. Muslin-wrapped mourners carry the dead up a leafy hill to a temple, conducting an ancient ceremony in modern Mumbai.
Drug Residue In Cows Is Killing Vultures
The populations of three species of vultures have been decreasing since the early 1990s and scientists say they are dying because of a veterinary drug used to reduce fever and treat lameness in farm animals.
Vulture Deaths Bring Rise in Rabies
The catastrophic decline of the vulture population in India, vital to cleaning the streets of offal and rubbish, has led to an explosion in the number of feral dogs and an increasing human death toll from rabies. An unknown virus has been killing three species of the once numerous...
Conservation groups battle pharmaceutical firms over new, safer treatment.
Parsi Tradition Dying Out for Lack of Vultures
It is one the most poignant images in India. Muslin-wrapped mourners carry the dead up a leafy hill to a temple, conducting an ancient ceremony in modern Mumbai.
Drug Residue In Cows Is Killing Vultures
The populations of three species of vultures have been decreasing since the early 1990s and scientists say they are dying because of a veterinary drug used to reduce fever and treat lameness in farm animals.
Vulture Deaths Bring Rise in Rabies
The catastrophic decline of the vulture population in India, vital to cleaning the streets of offal and rubbish, has led to an explosion in the number of feral dogs and an increasing human death toll from rabies. An unknown virus has been killing three species of the once numerous...