Tightening the ban on a cow medicine can save India's vultures
Tightening the ban on a cow medicine can save India’s vultures In just over a decade, crores of vultures have died from kidney failure after feeding on cattle carcasses laced with an anti-inflammatory drug. On October 8, 2020, eight satellite-tagged white-rumped vultures that were bred in captivity were released from an aviary near the Pinjore vulture conservation breeding centre in northern Haryana. The project had been in the works for years. “We monitored vulture populations in a 100-km radius of the aviary,” said Vibhu Prakash, deputy director of Bombay Natural History Society, a co...
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