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African conservationists saving vultures from going extinct

Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. But conservationists in Africa are trying to change that. They've launched an effort to save endangered vultures by trying to put a dollar figure on their incredible value.

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00:00Vultures have an image problem.
00:04Seen as ugly and associated with death,
00:08they are among the least loved animals in the world.
00:12But conservationists in Africa
00:16are trying to change that.
00:20They've launched an effort to save endangered vultures by trying
00:24to put a dollar figure on their incredible value.
00:28From a medical, from a veterinary and from a financial point of view
00:32they are extremely important in the environment. If one had
00:36to just consider if the vultures died out
00:40and we got increases in foot and mouth for example,
00:44the red line district would have to be increased, exports of meat
00:48out of South Africa would be curtailed, the whole
00:52coal chain process would lose money, the farmers would, as well as
00:56South Africa losing forex. So they're extremely, extremely important.
01:00A recent report
01:02by the BirdLife International Conservation Organization estimated
01:06that vultures are worth over
01:081.8 billion dollars a year
01:10to certain ecosystems in Southern Africa.
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