More than 500 endangered vultures died after eating three poisoned elephant carcasses killed by poachers, the Botswana government said in a statement Thursday. More than 500 endangered vultures died ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vultures play a crucial role in maintaining healthy ecosystems by efficiently disposing of animal carcasses (ALAMY) A devastating ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has produced an estimated 8.3bn tons of plastic, adding a further 380m tons to this amount each year. Only 9% of this gets recycled. The inevitable result is that plastic is ...

My wife and I were driving on a rural road in Bibb County in Middle Georgia the other day when I spied a dark mass on the grassy roadside ahead of us. “Vultures,” I said. “Ugh,” said my wife. I slowed ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Vultures are critically important to the world’s ecosystem and circle of life, but they’re also critically endangered. “We’ve lost 97 percent of the population [in the world] ...

A devastating incident in South Africa's Kruger National Park has left at least 123 vultures dead after they ate a poisoned elephant carcass. Poachers are suspected of lacing the elephant with ...