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Rare vultures die after eating poisoned stray dogs
Updated 2014-03-31 12:20:04
Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: About seven rare bearded vultures, two Tibetan wolves and several foxes have perished after consuming the carcasses of stray dogs poisoned to death by the workers of municipal committee, Booni, and disposed of at the desert of Kaghlusht in upper Chitral.
Talking to Dawn here on Sunday, the field biologist of WWF in Chitral, Shafiqullah Khan, said that two Tibetan wolves, a number of foxes and tiny birds and wild animals had perished instantly near the carcasses of dogs.
He said that the bearded vulture was a threatened species having a very sparse population in Chitral which lived in the crags of high mountains and its perishing was a great ecological loss that could lead to disturbing the whole chain of bionetwork.
He said that the bird had a comfortable population density in Chitral in the past, but the use of medicines for killing animals had been the cause of its decay. He said that the bird fed on bone marrows of dead animals and had been found highly susceptible to drugs...
Rare vultures die after eating poisoned stray dogs
Updated 2014-03-31 12:20:04
Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: About seven rare bearded vultures, two Tibetan wolves and several foxes have perished after consuming the carcasses of stray dogs poisoned to death by the workers of municipal committee, Booni, and disposed of at the desert of Kaghlusht in upper Chitral.
Talking to Dawn here on Sunday, the field biologist of WWF in Chitral, Shafiqullah Khan, said that two Tibetan wolves, a number of foxes and tiny birds and wild animals had perished instantly near the carcasses of dogs.
He said that the bearded vulture was a threatened species having a very sparse population in Chitral which lived in the crags of high mountains and its perishing was a great ecological loss that could lead to disturbing the whole chain of bionetwork.
He said that the bird had a comfortable population density in Chitral in the past, but the use of medicines for killing animals had been the cause of its decay. He said that the bird fed on bone marrows of dead animals and had been found highly susceptible to drugs...