DECADES OF GLOBAL COMMITMENT TO SAVE THE WORLD’S VULTURES
This discovery launched intensive work with governments and local groups to restrict the use of the drug and to recover vulture populations. Today, TPF continues to work closely with SAVE (Saving Asian Vultures from Extinction), a consortium of organizations working to recover Asian vulture populations, and is actively supporting the non-profit organization Himalayan Raptors to monitor and address ongoing threats to vulture populations in Nepal. When vulture populations across South Asia crashed by as much as 99%, TPF raced against time to identify the cause, tracing the collapse to a common livestock medication and launching recovery efforts that continue today.
TPF Complete Conservation™ Pillar
Vultures are among the most vulnerable bird species on Earth. Their numbers have dropped sharply worldwide. For over three decades, The Peregrine Fund has stood at the forefront of vulture conservation, working to understand and address the causes of decline across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Evidence to Action Pipeline Thirty years of vulture conservation around the world share a common thread: rigorous science informing every decision, from identifying threats to designing solutions.
Africa’s Vulture Crisis: A Comprehensive Response
Africa’s vultures are also in serious trouble. Eight species have declined by as much as 97% in recent decades, and six are listed as Critically Endangered or Endangered. The primary threat is poisoning , including retaliatory poisoning meant to kill predators after livestock losses, and deliberate poisoning tied to poaching and belief-based practices. Because vultures feed together in large groups, one poisoned carcass can kill many birds at once. Across Africa, TPF is working with communities to stop these losses . In Kenya, our Coexistence Co-op, a partnership with Lion Landscapes, collaborated with more than 6,500 people to build predator-proof livestock enclosures. More than 3,200 of these protective enclosures, or “bomas”, are now in place within our impact area in northern Kenya, where the number of lions poisoned has dropped by approximately 77%.
The Asian Vulture Crisis: Solving an Ecological Mystery
In the 1990s and early 2000s, vulture populations across South Asia crashed. In some areas, numbers dropped by as much as 99% in less than two decades, and for years, no one knew why. TPF raced against time with partners in Nepal, Pakistan, and India to solve this ecological mystery. In 2003, the breakthrough came: diclofenac , a common livestock pain medication, was killing vultures that fed on treated animal carcasses, causing fatal kidney failure.
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