Using plants instead of vulture parts for belief-based practices is helping to tackle poaching of the birds in some regions of Nigeria, say conservationists. Vulture populations have collapsed in ...

By Makuochi Okafor (BBC)“People fear the environment where the shrine is. No evil will ever happen here. So, nobody fights vultures that perch here,” a man they call the Vulture King tells the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Michael Manja Williams, an ornithologist and wildlife researcher, has traversed 18 states across Nigeria, studying how cultural practices have ...

Using plants instead of vulture parts for belief-based practices is helping to tackle poaching of the birds in some regions of Nigeria, say conservationists. In recent years conservation groups, ...