Sentences with phrase «vulture decline»

Because of this highly gregarious feeding behavior, less than one percent of cattle carcasses contaminated with diclofenac could account for the steep vulture decline.

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«Whilst lead poisoning may not be the main driver for the declines in vultures across Africa, it is something that can be tackled more easily through simple legislation, as compared to stopping the illegal actions of livestock owners or poachers» Amar said.

It has prompted a call for a national ban on lead bullets in the hope of minimising negative impacts on vulture populations, which are declining throughout Africa.

Vultures play an important function in the food chain by acting as scavengers, and there has been a giant ongoing effort to identify the causes for this rapid decline.

«The data unequivocally show that diclofenac is responsible for the vulture population decline in Pakistan,» he says.

Global vulture populations are declining at an alarming rate.

In India, for example, a rapid decline of vultures in the 1990s led to a rise in feral dogs — and rabies outbreaks.

The impact of vultures» declines are not limited to the realm of ecology, however.

In North America, the California condor, a vulture, experienced sharp declines until only 22 individuals remained by 1982.

The once common Hooded Vulture was uplisted to critically endangered in 2015 because of drastic declines in populations across Africa.

For example, following the decline of vultures, India experienced a strong uptick in feral dogs — by an estimated seven million.

Two other South Asian species, the Indian vulture (G. indicus) and the less common slender - billed vulture (G. tenuirostris), have also suffered catastrophic declines.

In India, which has the largest vulture populations and the best tracking efforts, the restriction is credited with enabling the white - rumped vulture population to recover slightly, to about 6000, and slowing the decline of Indian vultures, now down to fewer than 15,000.

The Oriental white - backed vulture has experienced a critical decline in its numbers, thought to be due to the veterinary drug diclofenac.

Long - billed (Gyps indicus) and slender - billed (Gyps tenuirostris) vultures have suffered similar declines.

NEW DELHI — The Indian government has decided to phase out a widely used veterinary painkiller implicated in the catastrophic decline of vulture populations on the subcontinent.

It has already caused the decline of nearly 99 % of India's vultures, which ingested the drug while feeding on carcasses.

Action on multiple fronts, illegal poisoning and wind farm planning, is required to reverse the decline of the Egyptian vulture in southern Spain Sanz - Aguilar, Ana; et al..

Indian vultures have suffered population declines of 97 - 99 %, with the annual rate of decline of 16 % in the first part of this century, all because of exposure to the drug diclofenac, given to farm animals to reduce joint pain and allow them to work longer.

Some good news on the critically endangered Indian vulture: New research published in PLoS One documents how the rate of the bird's decline has fallen since India, Nepal, and Pakistan banned the veterinary painkiller