A quick response averted a larger tragedy in Kenya. But Africa’s vulture population remains precarious. ByHaley Cohen Gilliland Photographs byCharlie Hamilton James November 22, 2019 •8 min read ...

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Vultures are the ultimate antihero: They’re ugly, aggressive, and have pretty rotten feeding habits. But they’re also one of the fastest declining families of birds in history—and that’s why ...

Fireweed covers a rocky slope of the Sorteny Valley Natural Park, located in the reserve. The park, which hosts two of the study sites, has more than 800 species of plants.

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Tracking the Birds In 2012, Ogada and colleagues extensively reviewed scientific literature on Africa's vulture populations, as well as unpublished data from road surveys and counts of dead vultures.

The route aims to draw travellers from the Gambia’s golden coast towards its lesser-explored interior. Named for a mythical water-dwelling beast, the trail traces the Gambia River 225 miles ...

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Amur tigers, sometimes called Siberian tigers, live mostly in Russia’s Far East. Expanding logging roads make it easier for poachers to find and kill the protected cats, whose body parts are ...

For nearly twenty years, Yam Bahadur Nepali has been known as the “vulture chef” of Jatayu Restaurant. Every week, Nepali, a strong and stocky forty-one-year-old, hitches animal carcasses to a ...

Brazil’s unfathomably vast forests cover almost 60% of the country, but in Misiones — an area roughly the size of Belgium — only around 6% of the original Atlantic rainforest that once ...