The dangers facing the Botswana vulture

One vulture may lay an egg for two consecutive years and then stop due to a whole lot of factors for the next four years. So, imagine what it means when 40 vultures die at a go like it happened at Lesoma last week. Research has shown that the vulture is an endangered species and may be extinct in the next half century unless governments make efforts to save it.
It is under threat from poachers and careless farmers.

The death through poisoning of the 40 white-backed vultures - a critically endangered species of the bird, is therefore cause for alarm. The incident may easily be the most serious wildlife poisoning ever recorded in Botswana - and it has left conservationists and bird lovers sick. The birds were found next to a cow carcass laced with poison.