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Too few vultures for Zoroastrians to dispose of their dead http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1210014715
"There are thousands of bodies rotting on the site," said Baria, agitated and angry. "There are no vultures at all and without the vultures, it doesn't work. The solar collectors don't work. Nothing is working. My mother's body was there for a year and a half, naked and exposed."... In 2000, the Indian scientific community called out to their international colleagues and an all-out effort was launched to determine what had caused vulture numbers to plummet from an estimated 80 million to just a few thousand in less than ten years. It was the most catastrophic decline in an avian population in recent history.... [discovered that] the three species of Gyps vultures were dying from ingesting livestock carcasses treated with diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and antipyretic pharmaceutical drug used on both livestock and humans. It is a mild painkiller akin to aspirin.
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