Article: African Vulutres Dying of Poison

Asian vultures have gone on a deadly downward spiral and are now being followed by their African cousins.  In the past 25 years, the African vulture's numbers have dropped by 50%.  At around this time the number of dead livestock near the area where these scavengers live soared.  The main cause of death for the vultures is being attributed to the dead livestock.  The farmers in Africa lace their dead goats with a toxic pesticide called, "Furadan" so that the hyenas and lions that eat the carcasses will die.  Although vultures range widely and travel far, they eat together, so then it only takes one per cent of cattle that need to be poisoned for it to affect the entire population of the African vulture.