“However, it is crucial to scale up these efforts, particularly in areas where there is evidence of vulture poisoning incidents,” Mfilinge says. “This should go hand in hand with ...

Once Ogada and others began to study the problem, they estimated that poisoning accounts for 61 percent of vulture deaths, Africa-wide. The anthropogenic threat is compounded by vultures ...

The vulture-governed cleaning service protects the health of humans, domesticated animals, and wildlife,” says Ogada. Data from African Wildlife Poisoning Database indicates that since the year ...

[Courtesy, AP] As the world marks the International Vulture Awareness Day today, poisoning as a result of retaliatory attacks has been cited as the main driver of disappearing vulture populations ...

Credit: Courtesy of Todd Backman The same fledgling turkey vulture after it was found sickened by rat poison and collapsed in the patio of a El Cerrito, California, home. Credit: Courtesy of ...

Chennai: Written off as a dying species, vultures are making a comeback. For years, their numbers dwindled, pushed by habitat ...

A VULTURE in the Hai-Bar Nature Reserve in the ... griffon vultures must unfortunately contend with. Today, for example, poisoning plays a critical role in the declining numbers of griffon ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with such unprecedented levels of detail. The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus ...

What is the white-backed vulture? The white-backed vulture is the most common and widespread vulture in sub-Saharan Africa. It is recognizable by its dark-brown face, long, white neck, and of ...

The fledgling will be released into the wild once it's old enough, as part of an effort to boost dwindling buzzard numbers in ...