Please sign petition to halt vulture-killing drug

European colleagues are asking for our help to stop the legalization in Europe of the drug diclofenac, which has already devastated populations of carrion-eating birds in India, Nepal, and Pakistan.

Egyptian vulture poisoned... Rachel Carson would be aghast.

Please sign this online petition (it just takes a second) and use Facebook likes and other means to transmit this plea to friends and colleagues. 

Diclofenac may soon be legalized in Italy and in Spain, which supports 80% of Europe's vulture species, including the endangered Egyptian vulture.

The killer drug is used as an anticoagulent for livestock but is deadly to carrion-feeding birds. 

Vulture populations in the Indian Subcontinent declined by an estimated 99% as a direct result of diclofenac.  Populations have slowly begun recovering there following a ban on diclofenac in 2006.