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World Service,14 Mar 2006,22 mins

The decline of the vulture

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The relationship of Parsee people and vultures and the decline in their numbers in India. How vultures and their consumption of decaying and dead bodies has been viewed as a form of conservation by the Parsee, but a decline in the number of vultures is causing concern and fears for the delicate ecosystem there - in a society that does not believe in burial or cremation.

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