Makuochi Okafor
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Aug
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Think of vultures as trash movers because they don't just eat flesh.
They actually eat bone.
They have such a complex digestive system that is so acidic that it can swallow bones and it doesn't hurt them.
So they clean up the trash.
They clean up the carcass.
It was actually quite common.
So I grew up in the, I didn't grow up in Lagos, which is a big city.
In a smaller city, vultures were quite common in Enugu, southeastern part of Nigeria.
I remember when I go to market with my mom and she goes to pick up meat in the abattoir, you would see vultures literally like hanging on the roof, playing around and all that.
But I've realized that I don't see them quite often anymore.
While I haven't been to Enugu so recently because I left there a couple of years ago, I just noticed that I haven't seen vultures almost at all here in Lagos.
The conservationists that I've been speaking with said it's actually very serious, especially here in Nigeria and across West Africa.
They've talked about things moving to actually receiving global attention and not for vultures being labelled as critically endangered in Nigeria.
So it's quite serious.
Think of vultures as trash movers.
Now, imagine in your street,
People put out trash, but there is nobody to move the trash.
Everybody's going to be sick in a couple of weeks.
Now, in the forest, in the wild, when carcasses die, when animals die, or when some animals hunt what they need, pick up probably just the head or the heart and they leave the rest of it,
There's a potential that everything is going to get rotten and perhaps get washed into water that people drink or spread diseases.
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