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The decimation of India's vultures led to deadly bacteria & infections, causing about half a million human deaths per year over five years.

"The vulture collapse in India provides a ..stark example of the type of hard-to-reverse & unpredictable costs to humans that can come from the loss of a species.”

For the Parsi Zoroastrian community in #Bombay & beyond, it has all but destroyed an eco-friendly system of disposing the dead

#Vultures #Biodiversity #India

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