A LIFETIME OF DEDICATION TO THE PEREGRINE FUND
The Peregrine Fund's project based in Kenya, along with collaborating partners, documented population declines of up to 80% in eight of Africa's 10 vulture species, justifying their uplisting to Endangered or Critically Endangered. When India lost 95-99% of its vulture population in the early 2000s, the feral dog population expanded to approximately 5.5 million animals that fed on cow carcasses the vultures themselves would have consumed. With the increased number of dogs, approximately 38.5 million more humans were bitten, which led to an excess of 47,000 additional deaths from rabies. (Photographer Munir Virani)
