That analysis considered not just rabies, but all human deaths related to the loss of vultures — including those from water contaminated by cattle carcasses. Researchers estimated that India suffered, ...

Carcasses have been poisoned specifically to eliminate vultures, whose overhead circling might otherwise reveal the poachers' illicit activities. A team of researchers have warned that African ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Vultures performed a crucial public health service by clearing away carrion but a drug used to ...

Most people don’t think much of vultures, despite their vital role as nature’s garbage collectors and first line of defense against diseases. Through the absence of thought, an absence of the birds ...

Vultures are disappearing from Kano not from disease or habitat loss but from a growing trade in their body parts for fortune ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Prasenjit Dutta This project is about mourning for vultures as a declining species. I had ...

Researchers predict that 12.7% of marine teleost fish species are at risk of extinction, up fivefold from the International Union for Conservation of Nature's prior estimate of 2.5%. Their report ...