Vulture Awareness and Appreciation

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-09-07 08:43:00 UTC
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There are some animals who just don't get very good press--or who don't get it very often. The vulture is an example. But Saturday, apparently, was International Vulture Awareness Day, I've learned from Becci of Liberation BC. Becci explains,

Vultures are finally getting the respect they deserve after years of being viewed as a creepy symbol of death and decay.  Of course, their unsavoury scavenging habits are actually an important part of a healthy ecology; without them, corpses are left to rot and infections are more easily spread.

Read more from Becci here and from a post at 10,000 Birds here (h/t to Advocacy for Animals for the latter link).

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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