« Only 5% of tropical forests managed sustainably | Main | Stomach bug makes food yield more calories »

Promise of drug-free dinners for India's vultures

Ban of veterinary drug should protect carion-eating birds.

India has announced it will ban diclofenac, a veterinary drug that has caused South Asian vulture numbers to crash by more than 95% over the past 15 years (see 'Switching vet drug could save vultures'). The birds are poisoned when they eat carcasses of treated cattle.

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on May 26, 2006 05:23 PM |

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blogs.nature.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/651

Post a comment

Comments will be reviewed by staff before being published. You can be as critical or controversial as you like, but please don't get personal or offensive, and do keep it brief. Excessively long entries may be cropped. Remember this is for feedback and discussion - not for publishing papers or press releases.

We strongly encourage you to use your real, full name. Email addresses are required: this is just in case we need to discuss your comment with you privately. They won’t be published.


Please enter the numbers you see below - this helps us to cut down on spam. If you are having trouble with this system, you can instead e-mail a comment to 'inthefield at nature.com'.

Search