why are Indian vultures dying.
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When a species experiences catastrophic population declines as high as 99.9 percent, any bit of good news is cause for celebration—even if the news isn't exactly great. India’s vultures now have some.
The birds were almost completely wiped out by a veterinary drug called diclofenac, but a new study finds that the number of deaths have declined by nearly two thirds since 2006. Unfortunately, the study confirms what we already knew: Despite the fact that diclofenac was banned in India in 2006 it remains heavily used, as does another drug, ketoprofen, one of several treatments that were brought in to replace diclofenac.
Both drugs treat inflammation in livestock, such as cattle (which are raised for milk but not eaten in Hindu culture), but they are fatal to vultures. When the birds eat carcasses of animals treated with the drugs, they experience acute kidney failure and die within days. India’s introduction of diclofenac in the 1990s proved immediately calamitous to the country's vultures. One species, the Indian white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis), declined by 99.9 percent. The Indian vulture (G. indicus) and slender-billed vulture (G. tenuirostris) experienced similar declines. All three species were classified as critically endangered in 2000.
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When a species experiences catastrophic population declines as high as 99.9 percent, any bit of good news is cause for celebration—even if the news isn't exactly great. India’s vultures now have some.
The birds were almost completely wiped out by a veterinary drug called diclofenac, but a new study finds that the number of deaths have declined by nearly two thirds since 2006. Unfortunately, the study confirms what we already knew: Despite the fact that diclofenac was banned in India in 2006 it remains heavily used, as does another drug, ketoprofen, one of several treatments that were brought in to replace diclofenac.
Both drugs treat inflammation in livestock, such as cattle (which are raised for milk but not eaten in Hindu culture), but they are fatal to vultures. When the birds eat carcasses of animals treated with the drugs, they experience acute kidney failure and die within days. India’s introduction of diclofenac in the 1990s proved immediately calamitous to the country's vultures. One species, the Indian white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis), declined by 99.9 percent. The Indian vulture (G. indicus) and slender-billed vulture (G. tenuirostris) experienced similar declines. All three species were classified as critically endangered in 2000.
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