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« Reply #390 on: March 02, 2018, 09:49:39 PM »
African vultures are in great danger

https://lowvelder.co.za/425207/vultures-disappearing/

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« Reply #391 on: March 10, 2018, 06:58:45 PM »
'Vulture safe zones' aim to rescue a vital but unloved scavenger

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/vulture-safe-zones-aim-rescue-vital-unloved-scavenger

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« Reply #392 on: March 18, 2018, 08:47:54 PM »
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« Reply #393 on: March 18, 2018, 08:53:36 PM »
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« Reply #394 on: March 18, 2018, 09:33:23 PM »
Even Vultures Are Going Extinct Now

https://www.inverse.com/article/42314-is-lead-toxic-to-birds-vultures-extinction

Abstract: Association between hunting and elevated blood lead levels in the critically endangered African white-backed vulture Gyps africanus

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969718306193



Abstract from 2006 mentioned in above article: Bullet Fragments in Deer Remains: Implications for Lead Exposure in Avian Scavengers

http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34%5B167:BFIDRI%5D2.0.CO;2


Researchers sampled vultures and found that they had elevated levels of lead in their blood during hunting season.
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« Reply #395 on: March 27, 2018, 10:21:38 PM »
Even Vultures Are Going Extinct Now

https://www.inverse.com/article/42314-is-lead-toxic-to-birds-vultures-extinction

Researchers solved the mystery behind lead poisoning in endangered African vultures

https://qz.com/1229274/researchers-solved-the-mystery-behind-lead-poisoning-in-endangered-african-vultures/


African white-backed vultures are listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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« Reply #396 on: March 27, 2018, 10:28:45 PM »
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« Reply #399 on: March 27, 2018, 10:31:47 PM »
Nigeria?s wildlife under threat - NCF

http://punchng.com/nigerias-wildlife-under-threat-ncf/
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« Reply #400 on: March 27, 2018, 10:33:19 PM »
Quackery and superstition: species pay the cost

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2018/03/26/quackery-and-superstition-species-pay-the-cost/


Cape vultures have been hunted to near-extinction for supposed medicinal purposes. (AFP pic)
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« Reply #401 on: March 31, 2018, 06:04:56 PM »
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« Reply #404 on: March 31, 2018, 06:09:39 PM »
South Asia's "vulture safe zones" aim to preserve, and win respect for, a vital scavenger.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1086.full

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