Last flight of an industrious scavenger

Not many people lie awake at night and think about the plight of Botswana’s vultures. In fact, for many people, vultures are an odious creature that literally feeds off the dead. It is an unwelcome and ungainly sight linked forever with the stench of decomposition.

There are some who would not bat an eyelid should it be announced this very day that only a handful of vultures remain in Botswana. After all, of what use are they, besides inadvertently pointing out that something has died?