How unintentionally poisoning vultures is killing humans | It's Complicated
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Africa has lost about 90% of its vultures over the past 50 years. It’s a rapidly growing crisis, and the decline is not down to natural causes.
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Most of these birds are being poisoned, often unintentionally, by humans. We know the impact that mass vulture death can have on humans, because India suffered the same fate just 20 years ago. Neelam Tailor looks into how humans are accidentally killing millions of vultures, and the deadly impact it has had on people.
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#Vultures #Africa #Wildlife #Lions #Nature #Conservation
Human short-sightness is truly astounding. We never think about the future, only about the now. That's how we doomed ourselves.
I mean one thing leads to another, and vulture can look like mosquitos to some, but theyre omnivores
We humans are the least short-sighted animals of all the animals on Earth.
However, little human kids with marshmallows are exceptionally short-sighted.
Well, tbh, the Masai are really at fault…they are just trying to protect their livestock to survive. The only ways they know how.
Socialism=Armagedon.
@@nathanieljefferies5491 I don't blame the Masai. They've lived that way for centuries. Global warming is what forced the Masai to stop being nomads, and now they constantly struggle with droughts. Global warming is also making life harder for wild animals, and predators are targeting their easy cattle, which is the tribe's only means of living. And all we get from chaos is the oil industry saying humans can adapt to extreme heat if we try a little, as they keep paying our politicians to bar laws that enforce sustainability. I reiterate: human short-sightedness is our doom.
vultures need to be protected as they are critically endangered
The problem with vultures are their lack of appeal in spite of their important role in the ecosystem.
the entire world needs protecting from those kinds of people
I was always surprised why vulture population decreased so fast in India, today i knew this. In my village no vultures now, i remember in my childhood so many were there.
Diclofenac ein Schmerzmittel hat die Geier ausgerottet nierenversagen. Kühe wurden mit dem Medikament behandelt.
Exactly same here in Bangladesh.
@@HasanRaihanhow so in Bangladesh?
Who'd have thought killling the creature that eliminates rotting carcuses would be a bad idea?
Everyone 👀
It's complicated. Poisoned animal carcasses were used to ward off the big predators, instead kills the biggest flying decomposers, and gets all over the place. Now dogs get the meal and start the biting. Thanks, we are all connected. the big predators are not to be blamed either as humans built permanent settlements on previously wild habitat
Someone who didn't think of this aspect, but only about some selfish reasons.
@@pikminscoolwhat if traveled from city to city? Like we still take care of the cities while were there and after some years migrate to another city while somebody else migrqtes to our city and repeat the circle all over again? Not just a few families but entire cities
Anyone with a brain💀
It's short sightedness and idiocy, there's no logic in poisoning carcasses...
Are they not aware of poisoning predators means poisoning themselves. And it would be worst.
Most humans don't think so far ahead. People will still choose to smoke or vape at the expense of their respiratory health, for example
Vultures need to be protected at all costs. They digest the worst stuff. They are the ultimate cleaners.
@@himanshusingh5214 They are also very impressive..Unlike many humans .
We are aare of plastic pollution, still we use it why ? Because it is cheap, serves our purpose, why bother about tomorrow ?
Why eliminate this creature that clears for us the infectious carcasses?
Because sadly many humans are totally pathetic and have turned to poisons which will end up in their water .
Maasais are shortsighted
Humanity really is the worst thing to happen to the rest of the world's creatures..
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Indeed, we are the plague of our own planet.
also to themselves
It's not 'humanity' or humans, it is indeed the inhuman acts of human-like creatures.
Not really, it's just bantus.
We rarely see vultures in Bangladesh but our politicians are the new vultures!
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😂😂😂
I guess the actual vultures are of more use to society.
I wouldn't insult vultures like that. They clean up the mess and are vital for the ecosystem. Those politicians? Nahhh they MAKE the mess
That's Vulturadesh
Humans are shame.
Yeah they must be extinct
One of the best short news videos I’ve seen in ages. Informative, thought-provoking, timely, and visually stunning. Superb work. I’m going to subscribe to The Guardian.
Life will always find a way
and so, too, will death
Vultures, eagles, sparrows and crows have become almost completely extinct from urban India and seeing these birds have become a rare sighting these days compared to what there were in the ecosystem till the early 2000's and these days we mostly get to see just pigeons that have taken over our skies and are considered to be rodents and hence also known as flying rats
Sky rat !!!!!
Sparrows, crows, eagles and Vultures are found in Urban India.
All of life matters.
Just because you may disagree, doesn't mean the consequences of our actions don't need consideration.
What happened to one, will eventually happen to all.
Everything created has a purpose.
Respect life.
All of it.
This we know the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle
Black life matter
@@harleyquinn8202 I'm so sorry you assumed
eating chicken, cows are fantastic! 😂nothing bad is happening to the ecosystem
@@ebadurrahman7848 ?
Thanks for sharing ❤🙏 in my childhood i see and found too many valtures arround my village, and now i am 22 i can't even see a single vulture nowadays 😢 even far from my village also
Truly enlightening, can't wait to get into conservation studies
I work with a few researchers that did conservation after their biology degrees and they absolutely loved it. I am glad to hear others getting into the field.
One element you dint report on relates to the intentional poisoning by poachers, May poachers poison carcases due to the fact that vultures act as a natural becon for identifying something dead for ant-poaching staff, This combined does not paint a pretty picture for the future vulture population in Africa
"Isn't it astonishing how in the 21st century, some people choose to live in areas inhabited by wild animals and then get upset when these animals seek food? It underscores the importance of providing basic education worldwide."
The Maasais have been leaving peacefully with animals for centuries, problems began with the arrival of foreigners.
@@dreyadreya972 define peaceful, because wild aminal been eating there cows for centuries as well
Should Africans move to America 😂
this is incredibly ignorant. it's as if you have no concept of ecological systems
@@patricepaines2167 The attacks from lions weren't as frequent as they are now, back then a lion that attacked cows was killed instantly limiting the chances of another attack or bringing a whole pride.
So true I a from pakistan and used to see 100s of vultures descending on a dead animal. Since around maybe 1995 they started disappearing and now nothing left in punab side
Excellent informative video.
It’s a difference between being uneducated and being criminal. They should give the culprits the same fate as the vultures.
Amazing piece of journalism. Thank you!
Wouldn't useing capsicum on carcasses and crops work as a natural repellent instead of poison? Birds don't have capsicum resepters but mamales do, so lions and elephants would be deterred but the vultures would still be safe.
Every thing humans do with tampering make situations worse
@@jorgerodriguez-ku4fw yes yes, I get the message. Human bad. Sorry but we can't exactly un-existent ourselves here. I'm just trying to suggest a *helpful* alternative to this particular problem rather than moan on about how horrible we are as a species like 90% of the other comments down here seem content on doing.
@@MillieGriffin the less meddling with nature the better
It would be pretty cool if about half of us did unexist though....@@MillieGriffin
I bet you would be moaning right along if this video was about a mass grave discovered with 10,000 d3@d indigenous children in Canada or whatever. @@MillieGriffin
Ignorance of the environmental conservationists in how Africa works is astounding. You need to understand that unlike Europe or America, African countries adopt a life style that utilizes every bit of land without proper planning for settlement or farming. About 90% of the citizens depend on farm land for a living because Land is individually owned. These people naturally will prioritize their lives with least care for the environment. Use of herbicides and pesticides are not properly controlled and this has consequences for sensitive wildlife like fish and amphibians. Sewer and industrial waste water gets released into the rivers without treatment. The fish that survived poisoning from those chemicals will go extinct when the river or stream they are in dries up because people have cut down trees affecting rainfall patterns. As long as Africans live this way, animals will go extinct at a faster rate in Africa than any other continent
No, it's just that bantus aren't intelligent.
Africa has more wildlife and trees than Europe or America. India and China have destroyed their environment more than any African country. Americans hunted the bison to extinction and Europe destroyed all their forests. Africa is the only place left with megafauna. Learn about the world before you talk.
Für ein paar Mäuse und Eidechsen wird es reichen.
Which africans are you talking about???? 🧐
And what wildlife do the Europeans have left?
Awesome video thanks for posting
thanks for your insightful journalism, I'm commenting to hopefully provide more traction with this video and important cause.
Thanks for sharing
We never learn.
It's not the end of the world, only the end of our world.
Well said
the comparison of greenhouse gas emission to north korea is puzzling
What about the lions? Why is their poisoning not viewed as horrible? Humans are a cancer on this planet!
Proof of the concept of "charismatic species" right there.
We never learnt once we disrupt nature's balance, that will be the doomed of human existence
All species of animals must be protected from the terrible human species
Also help the farmers when they lose livestock to predators. That's the heart of the problem. If we can't afford to lose vultures than we CAN'T afford to not compensate farmers.
Well documented , Well narrated.❤
Sub-Saharan Africa's population growth over the last century has been absolutely insane.
Back in 1900, there were about 90 million people living there.
Now, there are more than 1.2 billion people living there. Some countries in the region still average more than 5 children per woman.
If there weren't poachers and trophy hunters we wouldn't need sanctuaries for the animals.
True
Expanding populations would remove their habitat at an accelerated rate.
Bottom line is, increasing numbers of humans are the problem.
habitats of all animals are decreasing because humans invade (move into) their territory. @@oceejekwam6829
@@oceejekwam6829 farm animals* that Will be killer for their meat. Animal agricolture Is main cause loss biodiversity
@@oceejekwam6829 Your point is true as well. But so is mine.
We need vultures, they clean up all the mess and save us from any outbreaks by eating it.
Peoples stupidity never seem to amaze me 😔
"never CEASES to amaze", is the phrase you are looking for.
Ironic
How do we stop this 😮😢
Thank you for covering this.
Thankyou, very interesting..
Watching from Senegal, West Africa....
Great video. Thanks
Great Content.Need more Content like this.
very informative
every God's creation has its purpose
Well articulated. Learnt something new
This is very informative ❤
That nurse injected that neddle the worst way to that kid holy moly
When human kills nature Nature kills Human
Oke bye
Every food chain has purpose. Thank you for the information.Hope it helps.
Humanity,the earths enemy
Excellent information. Thanks!
Top-notch coverage and presentation.
Great reporting!
Doing the same mistake over and over doesn't speak to human kind's ability to learn.
Very enlightening and educative video. i hope governments will take note and act in a positive way to maintain the balance in the ecosystem.
In my home town they are cutting trees which are homes to crows and cattle egret
Humans learn by experience, including great sufferings.
Yeah nah... they'll learn the hard way, we did, we had all our cows die of botulism in 2019 after the drought in Namibia, guess how many vultures were on our farm... 💀
Should be fine if it will only happen to those who did it but no
Everything comes full circle
Why are human killing vultures anyway.? There are already so many birds and animals that are extinct, humans are very foolish.
Thus could have addressed issues more globally. In Spain they stopped farmers donating carcasses to vultures and vulture numbers plummeted. In South Africa the vultures have been dying for decades due to badly designed pylons.
Great report
We are all interlinked. Wiping one species or another will eventually come back to bite us sooner or later.
Humans don't and NEVER learn. We think we are above all creatures, greedy, everything we touch brings devastation to others. We refused to learn to coexist and it will be our destruction
Such an enlightenment.
It’s not a question of “if”, it’s “when”.
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all;
Can't possibly be true in Zimbabwe. For starters nobody is poisoning lions in zim. Elephants have been poisoned by poachers from Zambia but not very many.
I certainly am not aware of vultures dying in large numbers in Zim
Let's not let it happen there, too.
In Botswana too
@@phetogokgathi4217 Thank you
Poachers from Zambia? How do you know this? Y'all be dragging us in yr problems.
If anything, just by simple googling poisoning of animals jn Zimbabwe is vast compared to Zambia- so why should zambian poachers target yr animals? Everyone else is the problem except yrselves🙄
The camera footage of the wild boar running into the barber shop was from Malaysia.
That irritating "rattle"
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at the end of every sentence.
Like nails on a blackboard.
People upset the balance of nature.
How fatal and vulnerable humans are for other living animals specially for predators and scavenger
The earth could clearly do without humans, whatever we touch, we ruin
The governments should put up restrictions that humans should not poison animals. It is human invading animals' habitation - the forest. we human should stop interfering with the forest - animals' homes.
This is what they call "shooting yourself in the foot". The destruction wrought by us towards nature and other creatures is mind boggling and should be tried properly in a similar way to war crimes with death penalty.
Dit is apsoluut ñ ramp. Mense is te onverskillig in hulle optredes 😢
Damm😢
Dank u van harte❤💔💔💔💔💝😢triest voor dier natuur en t ergste ; De Mens.
What have we humans done....😢
Never a boring day in Africa 🌍 😅
What do you find more exciting? The poverty or human-caused destruction of habitat?
@@claudiamanta1943you mean Philadelphia drug crisis with human Zombies all over?
الكائنات الضعيفة هي من تنجب بكثرة الفئران السردين الأرانب أما الحيتااان لأ. ؟
Video starts 3:48
It's not just the climate change. Housing, industrialisation, pouching, and chemical based agriculture cause the ecological degradation. Reforesting and regenerative agriculture must be seriously looked into, while these birds and animals still exists.
Brilliant video
Existential threat from anthropogenic associated activities is the most likely outcome. 😢
This requires systems thinking.
As soon as I watched video I knew vultures are get with dealing with rabies as they have very acidic acid in their stomach. It's absolutely upsetting to see that we killing animals like that.
This why Vultures 2 is not dropping
Lack of knowledge is killing us😢😢
Shame on the masai..I thought their motto was to live in harmony with nature..🤦🏽
You really think the Maasai are manufacturing and distributing this synthetic chemical? Think deeper.
Fantastic video , realy grate job , we need more material with this quality and ease of compreension
They will catch on in another 1000 years.
Entire ecosystem collapse if there a no vulture
What is the govts of Kenya and Tanzania doing this whole time(15 yrs)? We have very inept leadership in our continent!!! Am sure someone knows the vultures are dying from poisoning…
But why would they poison the lions, this should be illegal. Using poison ☠️ should be banned
I regret watching this story... Painful for the cultures...
I wondered why Vulture population had decreased. Thanks to this video I found out as predicted that, humans are responsible for their demise.
We are have to respect ecosystem that mean respect all animals and all part of earth ❤
1:07And they decided to use cctv footage of asiatic lion and Asian elephants to showcase animal conflicts in Africa. 👏
why killing vultures
they are important for the balance of the ecosystem