Friday, February 10, 2012

Cambodia launches restaurants for vultures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq2k5GTd7c0

In a bid to conserve species hit by farming drug, locals prepare safe carcasses.


10 Feb 2012
Al Jazeera

In a bid to save Southeast Asia's dwindling population of the birds, Cambodia has created what they call 'vulture restaurants', where specially carved carcasses are laid out for the scavengers.

The so-called restaurants are the latest step in a programme to save the three species of the bird that have been nearly wiped out because of the widespread use of the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac in farming.

The presence of just one per cent of the drug in a carcass can kill the birds, whose diet is exclusively the meat of dead animals.

Al Jazeera's Stephanie Scawen reports from Veal Krous.

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:13 AM

    GOOD JOBS THIS CONSERVATION. CAMBODIANS AND FOREIGNERS. JUST MAKE SURE YOU HAD RANGERS SHOOT ANY CAMBODIAN AND VIETS POACHERS WHO TRYING TO POACH THESE IMPORTANT BIRDS.

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  2. Anonymous2:29 AM

    Yi ah tmat nis mok doch ah KwacK!

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  3. Anonymous3:27 AM

    1:13aM! what so important is it your mother?

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  4. Anonymous7:17 AM

    vultures or "t'mat" in khmer are nature's garbage disposal, i.e. they clean up dead and smelly, disgusting deads out there, you know.

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  5. Anonymous9:04 AM

    This look like the one of the head at Toul Krasang that he has forgotten his eye glasses?

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