Ban veterinary use of diclofenac in Europe
2021
Margalida, Antoni | Green, Rhys E. | Hiraldo, Fernando | Blanco, Guillermo | Sánchez-Zapata, José A. | Santangeli, Andrea | Duriez, Olivier | Donázar, José A.
In Europe, vulture recovery has been an important conservation success story (1). This success may now be jeopardized by the use of diclofenac in Europe’s pastoral landscapes. Although diclofenac had already caused a rapid and catastrophic 95% decline in Asian vulture populations (2), the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug was approved for veterinary use in Spain in 2013 (3). Although measures for the safe disposal of carcasses of livestock treated with diclofenac are supposed to prevent avian scavengers from feeding on contaminated carrion (4), a Spanish cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) was found dead,poisoned with diclofenac (5), in September 2020. European regulatory authorities should permanently ban diclofenac use in livestock before the tragedy met by Asian vultures repeats itself in Europe.
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