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India Killed Off Most of Its Vultures—Here’s Why It Cost Their Economy Billions

When about 97 percent of India's vultures died due to eating carcasses that contained a drug called diclofenac, it caused a boom in the feral dog population. The resulting rabies epidemic cost India billions of dollars between 1993 and 2006.


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