Several species of Asian vulture will be extinct within a decade, new research warns.
The carrion-eating birds have been on the decline due to exposure to a common livestock drug.
Now a survey of vultures in northern and central India has found the birds' populations have plunged to near-extinction levels—one species is down 99.9 percent since surveys began in the 1990s.
"These species are in trouble," said Todd Katzner, director of conservation and field research at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "Ten years? It may be sooner."
The study appeared this week in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Lees meer: National Geographic News
The carrion-eating birds have been on the decline due to exposure to a common livestock drug.
Now a survey of vultures in northern and central India has found the birds' populations have plunged to near-extinction levels—one species is down 99.9 percent since surveys began in the 1990s.
"These species are in trouble," said Todd Katzner, director of conservation and field research at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "Ten years? It may be sooner."
The study appeared this week in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Lees meer: National Geographic News
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