A recent report estimated that vultures are worth $1.8 billion a year to certain ecosystems in southern Africa. Here's why.

Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world.

South Africa's critically endangered vulture populations face catastrophic losses due to expanding infrastructure, with power ...

A landscape without vultures would be a toxic, fetid place, with lingering carcasses and unchecked, potentially dangerous ...

In a world increasingly dominated by human development, South Africa’s critically endangered vulture populations are suffering catastrophic losses due to expanding infrastructure. Power lines ...

A new report has found that conserving vulture populations in Southern Africa could have potentially huge economic value. Many vulture populations in Africa are in sharp decline, the authors ...

A vendor in Durban, South Africa, proffers vulture heads for sale as muti—traditional medicine. Dried and smoked, vulture brains are also thought to provide visions of the future. The birds ...

A few weeks ago, along a ridge somewhere north of the South African city of Pretoria, Sacha Dench returned to the skies once more. The Dartmoor-based conservationist, nicknamed the “Human Swan” for ...

With their fearsome talons, acid poo and a penchant for rotting carcasses, the vulture has long been shouldered with associations of death, and dishonour. This taboo often puts them bottom of the list ...

Africa's vulture population, says the report, plummeted by 80 to 97 percent over the last five decades, and the main threats facing these majestic birds include poisoning and electrocution.