Asian Vultures Appeal

[stevelucocq]

Hi,

 

My name is Stephen Lucocq and I work as a Arborist in Swansea. Next Month I will be going out to Nepal to do voluntary work with the RSPB. I will be involved in a project to conserve the future of Asia's critically endangered vultures that have declined by more than 97% since the 1990s. My work will consist of climbing high into the trees to gain access to the vulture nests. The purpose of this is to take vulture chicks into captivity to then breed them and reintroduce back into the wild when safe to do so. The massive decline in Asia’s vulture’s numbers is due to a drug given to livestock as an anti-inflammatory. Vultures are exposed to the drug when they consume carcasses of animals that were treated with this drug. For further information please visit:

 

http://www.vulturerescue.org

 

Anyone interested in giving a donation towards the project please follow the link below:

 

http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/vultures/index.asp

 

Many Thanks and I will write a full article/pictures when I return

Steve Lucocq

[sylvestris stew]

Good luck with your trip, it's amazing the effect the decline in vultures has in the whole ecosystem, for the fact that they clear carrion in an area where most of the human population are vegetarian, the increase in disease because of rotting fallen stock has been quite dramatic in areas.

All because of the greed of huge global pharmacutical companies:thumbdown:

[Stephen Blair]

good luck mate, sounds a like you will be working hard.

[gibbon]

Nice job.

[Steve Bullman]

those things are nasty ugly looking things...are you in any danger taking their young?

[brewx1]

Are these the vultures they feed the remains of people to in their mountain funerals? Horrible looking things, there was something on the box about them not so long ago.

Wouldn't fancy the job of 'funeral director' there either. They have to hack up bodies and feed them bit by bit to the birds, giving them the worst tasting bits first and saving the best bits til last or else the vultures will just eat their fill of the best bits and leave the rest:scared1:

 

Sounds a fantastic thing to do, and somewhere I would love to go, good luck!

[stevelucocq]

Hi thanks for the support. Heres a fews pictures from last year for those interested. I was not involved last year so I am very keen to help this year. Thanks again Steve

[jamesw]

i don't know who i feel sorry for you or the birds! the birds look massive

 

good luck mate

[andy goddard]

dont forget your hockey mask and your chainmail gloves steve .. dont forget to take plenty of pics.. or i will be posting some of my own of you dreaming of nepal..lol

[old snake]

That looks like an amazing experience,how did you get involved with it mate?