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The miracle of LIFE in the bearded vulture captive breeding network

This is one of the busiest periods of the year for us ...
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Breeding season 2015 – and another chick hatched in Tierpark Goldau

More good news from Switzerland – a chick hatched from one of ...
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Hatching bearded vultures – busy times at the captive breeding network!

One hundred years after going extinct in the Alps, the bearded vulture ...
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Breaking news – the pair of bearded vultures that has built a nest in Cazorla (Andalucia) has now laid eggs!

Another important milestone in the fantastic project to restore thisspecies in Andalucía. ...
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On Kirma and commitment to a cause – how intensive care and a lot of expertise rehabilitated a severely injured bearded vulture back into breeding

The bearded vulture captive breeding season in now in full swing – ...
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End of an era – one of the most prolific bearded vultures in our captive breeding network died on the same day his last chick hatched.

Maybe it was just a coincidence, but one cannot escape thinking that ...
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Bearded Vulture monitoring report for the French Alps – Life GypHelp

In the framework of the Life Project “GypHelp”, the Vulture Conservation Foundation ...
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The VCF and prominent Spanish scientists alert to a new threat to Iberian vultures – the proposal  to eliminate all by-products of hunted wild ungulates

The regional Agriculture Agency of Castilla-La Mancha (Consejería de Agricultura) has recently ...
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Vultures die of old age too – female bearded vulture left us at age 49!

The oldest female present in the bearded vulture captive breeding network (coordinated ...
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The mystery of the orange colour in bearded vultures. What benefits do birds get from bathing in iron oxid-rich mud?

Adult bearded vultures often have a deep orange-red tinge on their plumage, ...
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New papers on bearded vulture home ranges in the Pyrenees and Southern Africa

Two papers have been published recently with results from the monitoring of ...
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Good news from Algeria – bearded vultures seem to hang on in the country!

The last bulletin from the Theniet El Had National Park (Atlantica, see ...
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Taking care of precious eggs – the next generation of wild bearded vultures

Almost all of the pairs in the bearded vulture captive breeding network ...
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VCF´s new advisory service to the bearded vulture captive breeding network produces first results – several aviaries have been significantly improved!

In the last 18 months 14 zoos, animal parks and recovery centres ...
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Bearded vulture makes Xmas appearance in Madrid

An immature bearded vulture has been seen on the 21st December near ...
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Father Xmas brought some great presents – fist eggs laid in the bearded vulture captive breeding network!

This year, the race for first egg laid in the bearded vulture ...
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EMA says veterinary diclofenac does pose a risk to European vultures, and suggests a number of solutions, including a ban of the drug – what next?

(Photo Simon Littlejohn/VCF) The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published last weekend ...
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Scientific community suggest that weak environmental assessments of veterinary drugs undermine regulations and can cause a vulture ecological disaster

A few days before the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is due to ...
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On vultures, rotting food, and nasty germs – new research on the bacteria living on vultures

(c) Bruno Berthemy – European Griffon and Black Vulture feeding on a ...
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Vultures need you – please write to your MEPs about veterinary diclofenac

As the deadline for a final decision by the EU Commission on ...
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