Eco-logical ....essentially.

This is a true story. This is not my story but perhaps mine to tell. This is about two young people... committed to cause and motivated from within. How ever they said that it was not about them but other people who are are even more so.. Before the story...a statement. A statement of fact. As recently as the early 1980′s, there were approximately 40 million vultures in India, comprised of nine species. Now there are only 60,000 of these important scavengers left.The most effective cause is the use of a banned drug Diclofenac. In the course of treatment, if the cattle dies, and the vultures scavenge on these, it leads to the dehydration, visceral gout, and kidney failure in vultures within a few days. Experimentally it is established that even if less than 1% carcasses contains diclofenac, it can lead to such a drastic decline. The grim picture is that over 10% of the carcasses have prevalence of diclofenac. Captive breeding efforts are in progress, the last hope of saving these birds from extinction. But do we know and do we care? And do we care enough? We may not but there are people who do. So these two people gave up the comforts of home and ease of big city and travelled all the way to the inner regions of rajasthan. Leaving the bed at the crack of dawn ,observing, taking inventories and after a long back breaking day of covering miles filling up endless stream of entering and organizing data. learning about real life...they said it was how people live ...tough lives. If we have one earth and we don't care enough to preserve it and protect all that is ours.....what do we live for...they said. Courage.