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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 award-winning independent journalist, author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis (PublicAffairs, 2015), and a contributing editor to Orion Magazine. Based on a glacial moraine on the edge of the Atlantic, she’s a perpetual wanderer who can’t stop planting perennials.
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...