Makuochi Okafor

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134 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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The Documentary Podcast · Saving Nigeria's vultures · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

But vultures are very special because they don't just eat flesh.

They actually eat bone.

They have such a complex digestive system that is so dangerous.

acidic that it can swallow bones and it doesn't hurt them.

And even the diseases that animals carry, most times they have such protected immune system that it doesn't affect them.

So they clean up the trash, they clean up the carcass.

When you have them out of the wild, out of the ecosystem, then these carcasses are going to be there and they're going to potentially spread disease.

They're going to be washed into water bodies and people are going to drink out of these water bodies and everybody's going to fall sick.

So conservationists are saying that this is why we're also seeing rise of diseases, zoonotic diseases, that diseases that we get from animals in our world today.

Lots of people are noticing now that vultures are disappearing, particularly from big cities and even smaller rural areas.

So much that there's now a national alarm on it, even reaching to the government.

And it's quite a big deal now.

But what is the reason for this decline?

So it's a mix of many things.

I've been researching on this for quite a while and I've had to even travel to some communities during the course of my research and I've spoken to lots of conservationists.

There are traditional reasons to why vultures are disappearing.

Vultures aren't particularly seen as cute.

You see them in trash.

So they're not as pretty as those birds that we like.

So they're ignored.

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