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Tens of Critically Endangered vultures poisoned in Nepal

BirdGuides 8c5d7fa2-81c3-4123-87be-204628ec9fd0 At least 69 vultures have been found dead following a poisoning incident in Nepal in recent days. Reports suggest that local villagers had been illegally using poison to kill stray dogs, which were in turn eaten by the vultures. The death toll included 36 Critically Endangered vultures – 35 White-rumped (one of which was satellite tagged) and a single Slender-billed. The rest of the casualties involved Near Threatened species, with 31 Himalayan and two Cinereous Vultures making up the number. One Himalayan Vulture survived and is being treated. The appalling incident saw at least 69 vultures poisoned, including 35 Critically Endangered White-rumped Vultures (Bird Conservation Nepal).

Growing Demand for Vulture Heads Threatens the Birds' Survival in Africa

Get Audubon in Your Inbox Let us send you the latest in bird and conservation news. Last year, at dawn on  March 26, an exhausted Mohamed Henriques slid into his airplane seat. He had just managed to make it onto the last flight that left Guinea-Bissau before the small West African country closed its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic. Down below, amid the rest of the passengers’ luggage, sat the sole reason for his trip: a Styrofoam box filled with the corpses of three Hooded Vultures. The days leading up to the flight had been a relentless race against the clock. As an internationally protected species, Hooded Vultures require transportation permits that usually take months to acquire. Henriques had a couple of weeks. And though the birds had arrived from the crime scene eight days before his flight, a pandemic curfew and ongoing political turmoil within the country further complicated the process. Eventually, with only seven hours left, Henriques managed to ob

Rare European vultures being killed by anti-inflammatory livestock drug

Rare European vultures being killed by anti-inflammatory livestock drug Harry Cockburn © Provided by The Independent A livestock drug banned in Asia after it accidentally killed at least 40 million vultures between the 1990s and the early 2000s but approved for usage in parts of Europe, and has now killed a rare cinereous vulture in Spain. Diclofenac, a potent anti-inflammatory medicine, was banned in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, after it wiped out 99.9 per cent of white-backed vultures and 97 per cent of long and slender-billed vultures. The discovery of diclofenac as the cause of the deaths was made in 2003. Veterinarians had been injecting cattle with the drug and when the vultures scavenged carcasses they suffered kidney failure and died.

Rare European vultures being killed by anti-inflammatory livestock drug