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India’s Vanishing Vultures
Can the world's fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences?
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Issue: Spring 2011 / Volume 87/2
Published: April 14, 2011
Meera Subramanian is an independent journalist and author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis (PublicAffairs, 2015). She has been published in the New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, and Orion, among others.
Ami Vitale’s photographs have appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, Newsweek, Smithsonian, and Time. Her numerous awards include the National Press Photographers Association Magazine Photographer of the Year for 2003. An exhibit of her work is currently opening at the Field Museum in Chicago and...