A study recently published in Ecology and Evolution explains how declining vulture populations could have a devastating impact on the environment. Vultures have already begun to vanish across ...

A new study has exposed the the illegal trade of Hooded Vultures in Benin, revealing a major conservation crisis linked to ...

In districts that were "highly suitable to vultures", there was an average increase in human deaths of 4.2%. That implies about 104,386 additional deaths each year, or half a million in total.

In the communities that lost vultures, there were an estimated 104,000 excess deaths annually — deaths that may be attributed to the species’ near-extinction — from 2000 to 2005, the years ...

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Why Africa's Vultures Are "Collapsing Toward Extinction" A demand for vulture parts in witchcraft, as well as poisoning and urbanization, has caused a nearly 90 percent decline in the scavengers ...

Vultures are nature’s underappreciated essential workers. Even Charles Darwin, who wrote a dissertation on the lowly earthworm, reportedly called a vulture he saw during his famous voyage on the ...

The world's 23 vulture species, including turkey vultures, black vultures and California condors (which are endangered) here in the U.S., have sharp vision to help them spot carrion from high above.

Now, economists have put an excruciating figure on just how vital they can be: The sudden near-disappearance of vultures in India about two decades ago led to more than half a million excess human ...

A recent report estimated that vultures are worth $1.8 billion a year to certain ecosystems in southern Africa. Here's why.

Millions of vultures began to drop dead, leaving cattle to rot. This resulted in the spread of deadly pathogens and a rise in disease-carrying rats and feral dogs. Ultimately, about half a million ...