The near-extinction of Indian vultures in the mid-1990s proved fatal for humans too, causing the mortality rate to rise by 4% in districts ... In districts with vulture-suitable habitats, more ...

In India, vulture populations collapsed by 99.9%, the sharpest decline of any animal ever recorded, in the 'Indian Vulture Crisis'. Debbie Pain and Chris Bowden describe the urgent international ...

The population of Indian vulture severely declined during the crisis ... traditionally home to a large number of vultures saw a 4.7% hike in human death rates on average, or roughly 1,04,386 ...

Nine years on, Indian vulture declines have slowed, and in some regions their numbers have even begun to increase. But the population of the three hardest-hit species remains a small fraction of ...