The Compass - It's a Bird's World: Toxic substances
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How the deaths of vultures and sparrowhawks have alerted the world to serious environmental problems. Like the canaries which were used to detect toxic gases in coal mines, birds play a vital role in alerting us to substances which can damage a healthy environment. The price they pay to alert us can be losing their lives.
Presenter: Mya-Rose Craig
Producer: Sarah Blunt
(Photo: White-rumped vultures, slender-billed vultures and Himalayan griffons feed on a dead cattle. Credit IUCN/Sarowar Alam)
Published on Wednesday, 16th February 2022.
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