ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 9月3日 03時58分

photo by @chamiltonjames / Charlie Hamilton James - today is International Vulture Awareness Day. Vultures are not pretty (in the conventional sense of the term) and you might not think they need to be highlighted but they do. Vultures in Africa and Asia have experienced catastrophic declines over the last twenty years. In India and around Asia some species have declined by up to 99% due to the use of a drug called Diclofenac - a drug used to cure some ailments in cows. In Africa a mixture of poisoning both direct and indirect combined with habitat loss and loss of food has contributed to their current steep decline. Vultures are hugely important to eco-systems - they consume more meat on the plains of Africa than all the other predators and scavengers combined. Without them playing such an important role other scavengers such as jackals, feral dogs and hyenas will proliferate and with that will come an increase in rabies - as has been seen already in India with increased incidence of human rabies. So love them or hate them humans need them.

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