In recent decades, the vulture population in India has collapsed. Since the mid-1990s, populations of several species of the big carrion-eating birds have decreased by up to 99.9%. A study reveals ...

The Indian Veterinary Research Institute identified the pesticide 'carbofuran' as the cause of 25 vulture deaths in Dudhwa ...

Vultures have long evoked images of death, hovering over ailing animals and feeding off their rotting corpses. But the near extinction of the scavenger birds in India during the 1990s led to the ...

Madhya Pradesh’s ongoing vulture census is expected to record more than 14,000 vultures, up from 12,981 last year. Conducted ...

In a major conservation milestone, two Indian vultures released from Maharashtra's Melghat Tiger Reserve made a remarkable journey to Bhopal. Conservationists celebrate this long-distance survival as ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The dramatic decline of South Asia’s vulture populations, particularly the Gyps genus, was traced to the veterinary drug diclofenac, which caused ...

The often-shunned vultures play a crucial role in disease prevention and ecological cleanup, but their declining population ...