Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

Crows mobbing vultures (Gyps bengalensis)

Crows often mob Raptors and other threats to their nests. here they were attacking a small group of critically endangered white backed vultures.
loved the embarrassed look on the face of the vulture. While the crows are quite adaptable the white backed vulture populations are declining rapidly. These Vultures have suffered a 99 percent population decrease in India and nearby countries since the
early 1990s. The decline has been widely attributed to poisoning by diclofenac, which is used as veterinary non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID),
leaving traces in cattle carcasses which when fed on leads to kidney failure in birds.

Friday, June 4, 2010

International Year of Biodiversity, 2010.


Biodiversity 2010 from iLCP on Vimeo.


iLCP produced a multimedia piece for the GEF (Global Environment Facility) as their celebration of the year of Biodiversity, 2010.

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