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Drug ban gives vultures wings, improves diversity [1]

They are natural scavengers once abundantly found across Tamil Nadu but in the past three decades the introduction of an anti-inflammatory drug for cattle proved fatal for them.

Publication Date: 
02/02/2016
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Tamil Nadu [3], Vulture [4], Drugs [5], Endangered Species [6], Mudumalai SA [7], Ecology [8], Wildlife [9]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tamil-nadu
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drugs
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endangered-species
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mudumalai-sa
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecology
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife