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Today it is the International Vulture Awareness Day, and VCF has a message – Ban killer drug diclofenac or Europe’s vultures may face extinction!
The VCF warns that today´s International Vulture Awareness Day could be one ...
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Spreading the word – vultures are beautiful, necessary and endangered! International Vulture Awareness Day, 5th September
Vultures play a vital ecological role in our ecosystems, yet they face ...
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Help spread awareness on vultures – share your vulture pictures with National Geographic!
As part of the International Vulture Awareness Day (5th September, see here), ...
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The first baby Griffon Vulture born in the Balkan Mountains for almost a century baptized as Michel – a deserved celebration of one of VCF´s mentors
For more than a decade our Bulgarian colleagues have been dreaming about ...
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New paper discusses supplementary feeding programs for European vultures, and makes recommendations for the management of vulture feeding sites
Ideally, all scavenger species, including vultures, should survive based primarily on natural ...
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Call for volunteers for the 2015 Alpine summering griffon vulture census – 22 August 2015
Since 2010 a census of summering griffon vultures has been carried out, ...
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Griffon with tongue protruding from the neck observed in France
On the 26th July Francesco Panuello saw and photographed 6 griffon vultures ...
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Poison and lead are the main cause of vulture deaths in the French Pyrenees
Knowing causes of mortality of biodiversity, especially of rare and endangered species, ...
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Six griffon vultures released back to nature in Croatia
Late last month the Croatian NGO “Grifon” released 6 young Griffon vultures, ...
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The problem of poisoning in the Balkans and its impact on vulture conservation debated at a workshop
The VCF has recently participated in a two-day workshop organized in Papingo ...
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Vultures INDEED return! First successful breeding of griffon vulture in the Central Balkan Mountains for more than 70 years!
Hard work usually pays off – indeed, one of those joyful momentous ...
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The status of the griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) in Italy in 2014: population further increased to 135 breeding pairs
The current status of the 5 Eurasian griffon vulture populations in Italy ...
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Not quite the royal baby, but cute nonetheless – Baby griffon born in Israel from Cretan vultures
Pairgiven a second opportunity after failed rewilding in Cyprus A griffon hatched ...
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Two permanently wounded griffons travel from Portugal to France for captive breeding
Through VCF facilitation, two unrecoverable (permanently wounded) griffon vultures travelled recently from ...
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The silent killer strikes again – this time in Israel. Four griffon and two black vultures found poisoned in a rare case in the country
Poison is the biggest threat to vultures worldwide – that is why ...
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Prominent Serbian vulture researcher launches today book about griffon vultures
Bratislav Grubac is a researcher at the Serbian Institute for Nature Conservation, ...
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Another mass poisoning of vultures in Asia – at least 20 Himalayan griffon vultures dead in India
In recent years there have been increasing reports of widespread use of ...
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Italian experts and conservation managers discussed the pros and cons of feeding stations for scavenger bird species
Over 150 people from all over Italy participated in a conference on ...
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GYPAS project: 12 more griffon vultures released last week to restock the endangered population in Cyprus
On the 5th & 6 of February 12 griffon vultures have been ...
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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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