Woman eaten by vultures in France

A 52-year-old woman who fell to her death in the Pyrenees was eaten by vultures before rescuers found her body according to Independent reports on Monday, May 6.

The woman's remains consisted of 'only bones, clothes and shoes.'

Reports reveal that woman died when she fell down a 300m slope on the Pic de la Pista in southern France, near the border with Spain after taking a shortcut when walking with two friends.

Major Pericou told The Times: “It is established that she died in the fall.

“When we first went out in the helicopter looking for the body, we saw numerous vultures without realizing what they were doing.

“There were only bones, clothes and shoes left on the ground. They took 45 to 50 minutes to eat the body.”

Numerous reports reveal that their are an over abundant amount of vultures in the area, and they have been deprived large amounts of food after European health and safety regulators required that farmers and breeders burn the carcasses of any dead livestock.

Local farmers have been attempting to seek permission to shoot the Griffon vultures, which are a protected species, after the hungry vultures have been have been staging attacks on their livestock, and claim the protections are making the vulture population too big.

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Grahame Madge, a European bird of prey expert with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, told the Mail: “We are seeing three-figure vulture flocks over Belgium and Holland. These birds are fanning out across Europe in search of food.”

He added that “there is a conservation issue here.”

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