The near-extinction of India’s vultures due to diclofenac poisoning triggered an ecological and public health crisis. As ...

The same cast of characters features in most wildlife conservation campaigns: majestic tigers, adorable pandas or other creatures that tug human heartstrings. Images of the blood-splattered bills ...

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 ...

Recently, a vulture carrying a GPS tracking device near the Kadamba Naval Base in Karwar, Uttara Kannada district, sparked curiosity and concern among security officials. Given the sensitive ...

Each Indian vulture that eats the carcasses of India’s holy cows generates about 9,200 euros per year for its services. Animal rights activists have calculated it. But now the birds are threatened ...

Notably, the project was announced in 2020 under India’s five-year action plan for vulture conservation by the Ministry of ...

The 2025 synchronised vulture population estimation, the third of its kind in the South Indian landscape since 2023, has yielded promising results, particularly in the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary.