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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:
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.
Yi ah tmat nis mok doch ah KwacK!
1:13aM! what so important is it your mother?
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.
This look like the one of the head at Toul Krasang that he has forgotten his eye glasses?
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