5500 x 3682 px | 46,6 x 31,2 cm | 18,3 x 12,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2. März 2008
Ort:
Rajasthan India
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Across India the most unprecedented decline of any species on the planet has occurred giving rise to great concern for human health and well being throughout the country. By the late 1980’s the Oriental White-backed vultures were so numerous they were considered the most abundant bird of prey in the world, but today along with two other species, the Long-billed and the Slender-billed vultures their numbers have crashed from well over 40 million birds to a mere few thousand, all largely due to the pain killing ‘wonder drug’ Diclofenac. Even if veterinary Diclofenac was ‘completely out of the market place’ human Diclofenac is not and proves just as toxic for vultures so when many pharmacies from rural areas to New Delhi are still proscribing pain relief for a cow with a limp containing Diclofenac the future for the few remaining vultures would seem extremely bleak indeed. Meloxicam is a non steroid anti inflammatory drug which has been found to be a safe alternative to the drug Diclofenac. “Now indications are that the Egyptian and Red-headed vultures are facing a similar fate as they also are declining extremely rapidly”.
