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Vulture Rescue scientific publications


Deborah J. Pain, Christopher G.R. Bowden, Andrew A. Cunningham, Richard Cuthbert, Devojit Das, Martin Gilbert, Ram D. Jakati, Yadvendradev Jhala, Aleem A. Khan, Vinny Naidoo, J. Lindsay Oaks, Jemima Parry-Jones, Vibhu Prakash, Asad Rahmani, Sachin P. Ranade, Hem Sagar Baral, Kalu Ram Senacha, S. Saravanan, Nita Shah, Gerry Swan, Devendra Swarup, Mark A. Taggart, Richard T. Watson, Munir Z. Virani, Kerri Wolter and Rhys E. Green The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures. Bird Conservation International (2008) 18:S30–S48.

Green, R.E., Taggart, M.A., Senacha, K.R., Raghavan, B., Pain, D.J., Cuthbert, R. (2007). Rate of Decline of the Oriental White-Backed Vulture Population in India Estimated from a Survey of Diclofenac Residues in Carcasses of Ungulates. Plos One, Issue 8, E 686, 1-10.

Taggart, M.A., Senacha, K.R., Green, R.E., Jhala, Y.V., Raghavan, B., Rahmani, A.R., Cuthbert, R., Pain, D.J., Meharg, A.A. (2007). Diclofenac residues in carcasses of domestic ungulates available to vultures in India. Environment International 33 (2007) 759-765.

Cuthbert, R., Parry-Jones, J., Green, R.E., Pain, D.J.  (2006). NSAIDs and scavenging birds: potential impacts beyond Asia's critically endangered vultures. Biology Letters, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0554

Cuthbert, Pain, D.J., Green, R.E., Swan, G., Swarup, D. (2006) .  Comparative toxicity studies of NSAIDs in birds: A criticism of Reddy et al. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology.

Green, R.E., Taggart, M.A., DAS, D., Pain, D.J., Kumar, S., Cunningham, A.A., Cuthbert, R. (2006). Collapse of Asian vulture populations: risk of mortality from residues of the veterinary drug diclofenac in carcasses of treated cattle. Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 949-956

Taggart, M.A., Cuthbert, R., Das, D., Sashikumar, C., Pain, D., Green, R., Feltrer, Y., Shultz, S., Cunningham, A.A., Meharg, A.A., (2006). Disposition of diclofenac in Indian cow and goat with reference to
Gyps vulture population declines. Environmental Pollution, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2006.08.017. 

Cuthbert, R.J., Green, R.E., Ranade, S., Saravanan, S., Pain, D.J., Prakash, V., Cunningham, A.A. (2006). Rapid populations declines of Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) and red-headed vultures (Sarcogyps calvus) in India. Animal Conservation, 9: 349-354.

Gerry Swan, Vinasan Naidoo, Richard Cuthbert, Rhys E. Green, Deborah J. Pain, Devendra Swarup, Vibhu Prakash, Mark Taggart, Lizette Bekker, Devojit Das, Jörg Diekmann, Maria Diekmann, Elmarié Killian, Andy Meharg, Ramesh Chandra Patra, Mohini Saini, Kerri Wolter (2006).  Removing the Threat of Diclofenac to Critically Endangered Asian Vultures. PLoS Biology,
4: 395-402. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040066

Gerry E. Swan, Richard Cuthbert, Miguel Quevedo, Rhys E. Green, Deborah J. Pain, Paul Bartels, Andrew A. Cunningham, Neil Duncan, Andrew A. Meharg, J. Lindsay Oaks, Jemima Parry-Jones, Susanne Shultz, Mark A. Taggart, Gerhard Verdoorn, Kerri Wolter (2006) Toxicity of diclofenac to
Gyps vultures. Biology Letters, 2: 279-282. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0425.

Green, R., Newton, I., Shultz, S., Cunningham, A., Gilbert, M., Pain, D.J., & Prakash, V. (2004) Diclofenac poisoning as a cause of vulture population declines across the Indian subcontinent.  Journal of Applied Ecology,
41, 793-800.

Shultz, S., Baral, H.S, Charman, S., Cunningham, A.A., Das, D., Ghalsasi, G.R. Goudar, M.S. Green, R.E., Jones, A., Nighot, P., Pain, D.J. Prakash, V. (2004) Diclofenac poisoning is widespread in declining vulture populations across the Indian subcontinent. Biology Letters.

Cunningham, A.A, Prakash, V., Pain, D.J., Ghalsasi, G.R., Wells, G.A.H., Kolte, G.N., Nighot, P., Goudar, M.S., Kshirsagar, S. and Rahmani, A. (2003) Indian vultures: victims of an infectious disease epidemic? Animal Conservation,
6, 187-197.

Pain, D. J., Cunningham, A. A., Donald, P. F., Duckworth, J. W., Houston, D. C., Katzner, T., Parry-Jones, J., Poole, C., Prakash, V., Round, P. & Timmins, R. (2003)
Gyps vulture declines in Asia: temperospatial trends, causes and impacts. Conservation Biology 17: 661-671.

Prakash, V., Pain, D.J., Cunningham, A.A., Donald, P.F., Prakash, N., Verma, A., Gargi, R., Sivakumar, S.and Rahmani, A. R. (2003) Catastrophic collapse of Indian white-backed
Gyps bengalensis and long-billed Gyps indicus vulture populations. Biological Conservation 109 (3):381-390