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Scientific papers produced by the team at Vulture Rescue are listed on this page (follow links for pdfs), other vulture-related papers are available at this link

The papers below have all been published in international or national based peer-reviewed journals.

Naidoo, V., Wolter, K., Cromarty, D., Diekmann, M., Duncan, N., Meharg, A.A., Taggart, M.A., Venter, L. and Cuthbert R. (2009). Toxicity of NSAIDs to Gyps vultures: a new threat from ketoprofen. Biology Letters doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0818
Taggart, M.A., Senacha, K., Green, R.E., Cuthbert, R., Jhala, Y., Rahmani, A., Meharg, A.A. Mateo, R. & Pain, D.J. (2009). Analysis of nine NSAIDs in ungulate tissues available to Critically Endangered vultures in India.
Environmnet Science and Technology DOI: 10.1021/es9002026
Naidoo, V., Wolter, K., Cuthbert, R. and Duncan, N. (2009). Veterinary diclofenac threatens Africa's endangered vulture species.
Regulatory Toxicology& Pharmacoloy 53: 205-208.


Raju Acharya, Richard Cuthbert, Hem Sagar Baral & Karan Bahadur Shah (2008). Rapid population declines of Himalayan Griffon
Gyps himalayensis in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Bird Conservation International, 19: 99-107.

Pain, D.J., Bowden, C.G.R., Cunningham, A.A., Cuthbert, R., Das, D., Gilbert, M., Jakati, R.D., Jhala, Y., Khan, A.A., Naidoo, V., Oaks, J.L., Parry-Jones, J., Prakash, V., Rahmani, A., Ranade, S.P., Baral, H.S., Senacha, K.R., Saravanan, S., Shah, N., Swan, G., Swarup, D., Taggart, M.A., Watson, R.T., Virani, M.Z., Wolter, K. and Green, R.E. (2008). The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures. Bird Conservation International, 18: S30-S48.

Senacha, K. R., Taggart, M. A., Rahmani, A. R., Jhala, Y. V., Cuthbert, R., Pain, D. J. and Green, R. E. (2008). Diclofenac levels in livestock carcasses in India before the ban.
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 105 (2): 148-161

Prakash, V., Green R.E., Pain D.J., Ranade, S.P., Saravanan S., Prakash, N, Venkitachalam, R., Cuthbert R., Rahmani A. R., Cunningham A. A. 2007. Recent changes in populations of resident
Gyps vultures in India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 104: 129-135.

Swarup, D., Patra, R. C., Prakash V., Cuthbert, R., Das, D., Avari P, Pain, D.J., Green, R.E., Sharma, A.K., Saini, M., Das, D., Taggart M. 2007. The safety of meloxicam to critically endangered
Gyps vultures and other scavenging birds in India. Animal Conservation, 10: 192-198.

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.

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.

Prakash, V., Green, R.E., Rahmani, A.R., Pain, D.J., Virani, M.Z., Khan, A.A., Baral, H.S., Jhala, Y.V., Naoroji, R., Shah, N., Bowden, C.G.R., Choudharay, B.C., Narayan, G., and Gautam, P. (2005). Evidence to support that diclofenac caused catastrophic vulture population decline. Current Science 88:1533-1534.

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,