Feral dogs pose major threat to vultures in Thar desert: study

A study in Biological Conservation finds free-ranging dogs are a serious threat to vultures at a carcass dump in Bikaner's Jorbeer Conservation Reserve, where migratory griffons gather each winter. Vultures spent half as long feeding at the open dump as at dog-free enclosures. India's vulture numbers crashed over 90% in the 1990s, mainly due to the drug diclofenac.