By Chidimma C. Okeke
Nigeria is losing free ecological
services as vultures go extinct in the country. The carrion feeders are a vital
part of the ecosystem. They provide important ecosystem services that
contribute to human health and wellbeing.
These services include removing
carcasses and other organic waste from the environment, thereby, reducing the
spread of diseases and contamination of water supplies.
Vultures, despite these services they
render naturally are, however, faced with general population decline worldwide
with a seven per cent decline yearly for the past three decades
The International Union for
Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) red list of threatened species said vultures
are among the most threatened group of migratory birds in the world. As Nigeria
joined the rest of the world to commemorate the International Vulture Awareness
Day (IVAD) on the first Saturday of September, a day set aside by the global
body to highlight the importance of vultures and their conservation, it was
observed that the birds are fast going into extinction.
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