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Is the lack of vultures and buzzards killing us?

One of the major disasters that has been flying under the radar is the rapid decline in the number of vultures and buzzards around the world. Vultures and buzzards are a vital part of the process that disposes of dead animals in the wild. A flock of them can easily eat a large animal carcass in a very short time, about twenty minutes or so. This is very important because it keeps the carcass from polluting the land and the water and it also stops other scavengers from coming into contact with diseased carcasses and spreading the diseases to domestic animals and people.

The thinking is that if the number of vultures and buzzards continue to decline it will have a serious effect on human health.

Why we should all be worried about a vulture apocalypse
"A catastrophic decline of vulture populations in Africa and Asia is causing alarm among researchers, who fear that a “cascade” effect could lead to the spread of deadly old and new diseases, including plague, anthrax, and rabies."

"But now, many vultures and other raptor species are diving beak first into the abyss. In the 1990s, vulture populations on the Indian subcontinent plummeted by about 99 per cent. Seven out of eleven of the species found in Africa are now on the verge of extinction."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/why-should-worried-vulture-apocalypse/

Who knows what kinds of pandemics we will have when the vultures become extinct?
JestAJester · 31-35, M
I believe it. My dad is one of those people that doesn't understand what happens when you kill off a whole species. He was watching one of my Shark Week Dvds and after seeing all the attack on people he's got it in his mind we should just kill them off. As far as I'm concerned, if you're trenching into shark infested waters, your life is your own now and what happens is your fault.

He also kills Coyotes where we live whenever he gets the chance and leaves them there to rot
Eddiesolds · 61-69, M
@JestAJester This is really sad
Nanoose · 61-69, M
Awhile back I watched a documentary about how illegal ivory hunters kill vultures. Because when they kill elephants the vultures circle above and that gives authorities a clue that there are ivory hunters in the area and the location of the ivory hunters hunting ground. I thought it was horrible enough that they killed elephants but it makes it twice as bad when they also kill vultures. We have Turkey vultures around here and I love watching them fly. Cheers!
i would worry bout this first.. if bees are gone so will be most crops. mankind's fault
Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and more. Many of these causes are interrelated. and most caused by man..
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https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/sustainable-agriculture/save-the-bees/
kodiac · 22-25, M
They are doing fine here
I had not heard this about the vultures. But it doesn't surprise me. So many birds, so many creatures disappearing at an extinction pace.
I love to watch the vultures fly, the way they coast on the wind currents.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
Well, the clock is ticking. Expect to cope with new epidemics that originate in places that have lost their natural garbage disposals.
SW-User
We are living in the 6th mass extinction. Everything is dying off. That's what happens in these pesky mass extinctions..
Carazaa · F
Why are they decreasing?
Carazaa · F
@Diotrephes OK thanks! Too bad 😢
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@Carazaa The problem is that it is expected that deadly animal pathogens will be passed on to humans. Vultures are the animal garbage disposals.
Carazaa · F
@Diotrephes Got it 👍
Ingwe · F
we are shooting ourselves in the foot
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