This is bird note. Not everyone finds vultures appealing, but Jessica Dawson of Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe has no trouble describing the charms of a white-backed vulture named Judge.

Judge is seven years old.

She's a beautiful bird.

She stands about just about two two and a half feet tall and she's got beautiful

sort of different color feathers from a dark brown at the end going up to a lighter brown

and then a white sort of tuft at the neck going onto the head.

So she is a beautiful animal and we're very fortunate to have her.

Judge was found in the wild with a damaged wing.

Zimbabwe has six vulture species. was found in the wild with a damaged wing.

Zimbabwe has six vulture species, and five of them are endangered.

The biggest threat, poachers using poison to kill elephants

and other large mammals.

Vultures feeding on carcasses then become poisoned themselves.

An organization called Bird Life Zimbabwe

is working to spread the word about why vultures need help.

Crystal Dubey, a farmer in the western part of the country,

leads a local group that raises awareness.

If people don't understand the value and the importance of that bird, they might think it's a useless bird.

But we have since realized that it plays a very important role within the environment, particularly in terms of

cleaning up, carcasses, a reduction on diseases.

It does help quite a lot.

You can hear more about efforts to protect Zimbabwe's vultures on the threatened

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