Demand for vultures in West Africa threatens central African populations
via news.mongabay.com
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Conservationists warn that vulture populations in central African countries like Chad are increasingly at risk due to belief-based use in Nigeria and Benin. Abiola Sylvestre Chaffra, a researcher at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin, told Mongabay he was out in Chad, photographing vultures, when a man offered to help him capture the birds. Vultures […]