10 September, 2024
Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus). Photo by MarnixR, CC BY-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
“It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it,” goes an old saying. When it comes to cleaning up waste at slaughterhouses, landfills, and other areas, that someone is often a vulture! Although they do their job without complaint, African vultures have increasingly become the victims of habitat loss and loss of food resources, due to expanding human activities, wildlife declines, and changing waste disposal practices. On top of this, African vultures have also increasingly faced persecution for use in high-priced “black magic” concoctions in wildlife markets that have been rapidly increasing in size and scope, pushing many to the brink of extinction. Fortunately, however, vultures have some important friends and advocates in Nigeria, within the Osogbo Bird Conservation Project! Project staff Akinleye Isaac Oyegbami and Mary Oluwaseun Adeyinka celebrated International Vulture Awareness Day through a passionate, informative interview about vultures and the benefits they bring to people as scavengers with the host of Spring Delight on Western Spring Television, which you can watch below:
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