Loss of India’s vultures may have led to deaths of half a million people Find could offer lessons for conserving key species in other places

They were nature’s cleanup crew. Eating carcasses, purifying the land, stopping disease.
Then we poisoned them.
Dogs and rats spread. Water soured. People died.
Vultures weren’t optional. They were essential.

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