Vultures stalk death, and death stalks vultures. Think about the scavenger bird and images of disease and decay soon follow. The birds have a bad reputation – unjustifiably so, say ...

Vultures stalk death, and death stalks vultures. Think about the scavenger bird and images of disease and decay soon follow. The birds have a bad reputation – unjustifiably so, say ...

The near-extinction of Indian vultures in the mid-1990s proved fatal for humans too, causing the mortality rate to rise by 4% in districts once populated by the birds.

The authors estimated that between 2000 and 2005, the loss of vultures caused around 100,000 additional human deaths annually, resulting in more than $69bn (£53bn) per year in mortality damages ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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