Vultures

A smartphone app that can identify heart attacks with a simple sensor attachment

The app seems to be almost as accurate as a standard, 12-lead ECG used to diagnose heart attacks.

Eight critically-endangered Indian vultures to be released into the wild next year

This effort is the second long-term project of its kind to preserve the endangered Indian vultures.

Two lions, 110 vultures poisoned at South Africa's Kruger park

Suggesting a new poaching trend in the heavily-guarded Kruger National Park, two lions and over 100 vultures died after eating the poisoned carcass

India gets first restaurant for vultures to save the birds from extinction

Numbers of white-backed vultures - once the most common large raptor in the world - have collapsed by more than 99 per cent across the Indian subcontinent.

How pain medication is killing India's vultures

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and UK-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have drawn attention to a recent research paper highlighting threats to vultures.