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Switching vet drug could save vultures

Alternative livestock drug should be used to avert bird extinctions, say researchers.

Conservationists battling to save South Asia’s vultures have renewed their calls for a regional ban on the widely prescribed livestock drug diclofenac, which is responsible for the fatal poisoning of millions of birds over the past decade.

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