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Nepal's vulture "restaurants" for endangered birds
Feb 7th, 2012
PITHAULI, Nepal (Reuters) - In the village of Pithauli, surrounded by ripening mustard fields, a woman hauls a cow carcass on a trolley, drops it in an open field, then runs and hides in a nearby hut as dozens of vultures swoop down. In under half an hour, the carcass has been reduced to picked bones by the dun-coloured birds, occasionally squabbling as they feed. The site is one of a handful of vulture "restaurants" opened to save the birds, which help keep the environment clean by disposing of carrion, from extinction -- and at the same time help impoverished villages become self-sufficient. ... (Source: Reuters) -
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