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New York City’s Rubin Museum of Art is currently showing two fascinating exhibits from the exotic & troubled Kingdom of Nepal. From the Land of the Gods: Art of the Kathmandu Valley presents highlights of the Rubin’s collection of Nepalese artifacts spanning over 1000 years and straddling the Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions which dominate the region.

Nepal in Black & White: Photographs of Kevin Bubriskie showcases a small portion of images from 35 years of visits to the remote Himalayan country. Bubriskie, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal in the 1970’s , returned to the country in 1984 to further document a way of life he felt slipping away. In his words:

“The realization that not only my camera but also the modern world was making ever-increasing intrusions into even the most remote areas of Nepal compelled me to document a time and way of life slipping inexorably into the past.”

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When your diet consists of roadkill, how picky can you be? Well, if you’re a rare vulture living in Nepal, you may be lucky enough to sink your talons into an antibiotic-and- hormone-free cattle carcass courtesy of Bird Conservation Nepal.

“Vulture numbers have plummeted catastrophically in south Asia since the 1990s,” New Scientist reports, and researchers have linked the decline to “vultures eating dead cattle treated with the anti-inflammatory drug, diclofenac.”

So BCN has created a sort of bistro for the birds, stocked with carcasses of cattle that haven’t been treated with the drug. Diclofenac is banned in Nepal, but, according to New Scientist, “the ban is largely ignored. As a result, the population of vultures in mountainous Nepal is estimated to have dipped to only about 500 nesting pairs ” down from about 50,000 in 1990.”

Thanks to the BCN’s efforts, the number of white-rumped and slender-billed vultures—the two species decimated by diclofenac—has nearly doubled. No word on what impact diclofenac-laced livestock is having on the non-feathered population of Nepal, though.

Learn more about Bird Conservation Nepal here.