In The Field

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.

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