#USA Vultures have taken over a North Carolina neighborhood thanks to a couple that won’t stop feeding them, town says
The vultures ‘produce voluminous amounts of noxious excrement,’ which is damaging homes and cars below, the Town of Hillsborough’s petition states
#India lost the most vultures, with its vulture populations collapsing by about 95% to 98% in the 1990s and 2000s. India lost 40 million vultures in one of the fastest ecological collapses ever. A painkiller for buffalos killed nature’s perfect sanitation system, and triggered a public health crisis. TIL about the Indian Vulture Crisis. Fascinating stuff. In short, vets were giving an antibiotic to livestock which vultures later ate and died of kidney failure. This caused a 99.5% decline in vulture population causing a soar in pests and harmful bacteria. It also contributed to an increase of 5M feral dogs that caused 38M bites to humans making 47k deaths and $34B in economic impact.
#SouthAfrica warns of #vulture population crisis
At least 123 vultures died after feeding on a poisoned elephant carcass in South Africa’s #Kruger National Park in May. #Wildlife rangers were able to rescue and treat about 83 of the surviving #birds.
