Dhyeya Shah

Sri City: In the 1980s, India was home to around 40 million vultures, however, today we find that over 97% of India’s vulture population have vanished , victims not of hunting or habitat loss, but from an unlikely source. A common anti-inflammatory and “harmless” drug, a painkiller: diclofenac. Diclofenac was introduced in veterinary practice in the early 1990s and was for cattle and humans alike but was widely used by farmers to ease the pain of their livestock. The side effect on treated...

Sri City: The extinction of the northern white rhino is one of the most poignant environmental tragedies of our time. Once ranging across the grasslands and savannas of Central and East Africa, this subspecies is now functionally extinct: only two females remain, both living under armed protection in Kenya, with no remaining males and no possibility of natural reproduction.​ The northern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum cottoni ) was once a charismatic symbol of Africa's biodiversity....