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Diclofenac poisoning as a cause of vulture population declines across the Indian subcontinent
TLDR
It is recommended that urgent action is taken in the range states of the three currently threatened vulture species to prevent the exposure of vultures to livestock carcasses contaminated with diclofenac.
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Rapid population declines of Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) and red‐headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus) in India
TLDR
Analysis of repeated surveys in and near protected areas widely spread across India shows that populations of two other vulture species, Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus and red-headed vulture Sarcogyps calvus, have also declined markedly and rapidly, but probably with a later onset than Gyps vultures in the same region.
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Diclofenac poisoning is widespread in declining vulture populations across the Indian subcontinent
TLDR
It is shown that a high proportion of Gyps bengalensis and G. indicus found dead or dying in a much larger area of India and Nepal also have residues of diclofenac and visceral gout, a post–mortem finding that is strongly associated with dic-of-enac contamination in both species, suggesting veterinary use of dIClofy is likely to have been the major cause of the rapid vulture population declines across the subcontinent.
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Removing the Threat of Diclofenac to Critically Endangered Asian Vultures
TLDR
It is concluded that meloxicam is of low toxicity toGyps vultures and that its use in place of diclofenac would reduce vulture mortality substantially in the Indian subcontinent.
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Catastrophic collapse of Indian white-backed Gyps bengalensis and long-billed Gyps indicus vulture populations
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Henipavirus Infection in Fruit Bats (Pteropus giganteus), India
TLDR
Twenty bats were seropositive for Nipah virus, which suggests circulation in pteropid fruit bats in northern India, thereby extending the known distribution of henipaviruses in Asia westward by >1,000 km.
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Status of Vultures in Keoladeo National Parkc Bharatpurc Rajasthanc with Special Reference To Population Crash in Gyps Species
Causes and Effects of Temporospatial Declines of Gyps Vultures in Asia
There are eight species in the genus Gyps : Gyps africanus , G. coprotheres, and G. rueppellii in Africa; G. bengalensis , G. indicus , G. tenuirostris , G. himalayensis in Asia; G. fulvus in Europe,…
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The Population Decline of Gyps Vultures in India and Nepal Has Slowed since Veterinary Use of Diclofenac was Banned
TLDR
The degree to which the decline of G. bengalensis in India has slowed is consistent with the expected effects on population trend of a measured change in the level of contamination of ungulate carcasses with the drug diclofenac, which is toxic to vultures, following a ban on its veterinary use in 2006.
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The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures
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It may be some years before diclofenac is removed from the vultures' food supply, and captive populations of three vulture species have been established to provide sources of birds for future reintroduction programmes.
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