Diclofenac poisoning as a cause of vulture population declines across the Indian subcontinent
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RHYS E. GREEN*†, IAN NEWTON‡, SUSANNE SHULTZ*§, ANDREW A. CUNNINGHAM§, MARTIN GILBERT¶, DEBORAH J. PAIN* and VIBHU PRAKASH** * Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2 DL, UK; † Conservation Biology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK; ‡ Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood Research Station, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 2LS, UK; § Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4RY, UK; ¶ The Peregrine Fund, 5668 West Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, ID 83709, USA; and ** Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, SB Singh Road, Mumbai–400 023, India
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