The Indian vulture, slender-billed vulture and Asian white-backed vulture are all Critically Endangered with population declines between 97 and 99.9%, while other types of vulures are listed as threatened or endangered.
The dramatic population crashes are as a result of ingesting the cattle drug, diclofena. Farmers started to administer it to their livestock as a painkiller in the 1990's and is often given to animals close to death. Vultures scavenge the carcasses, and are killed in days from diclofenac poisoning
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We ask the Indian government to ban the use of diclofena on cattle, and save the vulture from extinction.
SOURCE: http://blog.arkive.org/2012/07/spotlight-on-the-last-hope-a-film-by-neloy-bandyopadhyay/
Mr. Hem Kumar Pande
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, Room No. 627
New Delhi, Delhi - 110003
India
Tel: + 24 36 2551
Fax: 011 24 36 0894
EMail:
hempande@nic.in