Mass Poisoning a Devastating Blow to Vulture Populations. But They're Fighting Back: SouthAfrica
The demand for animal body parts to feed the illegal wildlife trade has led to thousands of vultures being poisoned across Africa, which has devastated populations and is driving them rapidly towards extinction. The current scale and rate of vulture losses to poisoning can lead to the local extinction of vultures in the northern area of the Kruger National Park by 2026.
The Greater Kruger, including the Associated Private Nature Reserves and the Great Limpopo Transfrontier landscape, is an important, vulture-rich landscape and currently a hotspot for wildlife poisoning, with at least six new incidents recorded in the southern half of the Greater Kruger since February 2020.