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California Institute of Technology
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University of Texas
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Utah University
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University of Cambridge
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Detailed explanation-1: -University of Utah biologists on 5 May 2016 released a report titled “Why Vultures matter – and what we lose if they’re gone”. The report published in Biological Conservation highlights the impact of decline in population of vultures on ecosystem and human.
Detailed explanation-2: -It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population severely declined. Indian vultures died of kidney failure caused by diclofenac poisoning.
Detailed explanation-3: -A major contributing factor in declining populations of vultures is believed to be widespread use of drugs such as diclofenac, once commonly used as a livestock anti-inflammatory drug. Veterinary usage of diclofenac has been banned in India since 2006.
Detailed explanation-4: -The centre is spread on a 5 acre land of Haryana Forest Department. The JCBC, earlier known as Vulture Care Centre (VCC), was established in September 2001 with the UK Government Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species’ fund, to investigate the dramatic declines in the resident Gyps species of vultures.
Detailed explanation-5: -India’s three vulture species saw an unprecedented decline of 97 to 99.9 percent between 1992 and 2007 owing to ingesting diclofenac through cattle carcasses.