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Fourth newsletter of the LIFE+ GYPCONNECT published – linking bearded vultures from the Alps to the Pyrenees
Two years after the LIFE+ project GYPCONECT started, you can now read ...
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Hope and resilience – cinereous vultures resurrect from the ashes in the Douro canyon – Happy Easter!
Easter is an important date for half of the world – and ...
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68 (Easter) eggs in the bearded vulture captive breeding season – but number of resulting chicks will be average
While you are about to eat your Easter eggs – chocolate and ...
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Egyptian vulture in the Western European flyway – experts identify priorities and discuss future collaboration
An important workshop for the conservation of the Egyptian vulture population in ...
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New children’s book features a Griffon vulture as one of the main characters
Illustration by Emily Chan Moore from the book “The Servants of the ...
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New Balkan Anti-Poisoning Project kick-offs at the 3rd Adriatic Flyway Conference
The 3rd Adriatic Flyway Conference took place from the 19th until the ...
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Palanfré – the white bearded vulture was found dead in Piemonte
Palanfré (c) Batti Gai Every bird counts, specially in the case of ...
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Infogipeto – latest newsletter on the bearded vulture reintroduction project in the Alps just published (in Italian)
The bearded vulture reintroduction project in the Alps is one of the ...
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Bearded vulture census and symposium in Stelvio National Park (Italy) – celebrating an extraordinary human and conservation adventure!
More than 200 volunteers from Italy and neighbouring countries braved the cold ...
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Strange taste for food, but immensely beneficial and vulnerable – vultures in Eastern Rhodopes. They are just brilliant! New film
A wonderful small movie about vultures was produced recently by our partner ...
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Italy – bearded vulture symposium and field count in Stelvio will take place this weekend!
Twenty years after the first bearded vulture pair bred successfully in the ...
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Wandering Tayeh – the Egyptian vulture in Oman. is staying close to home
After an internet vote in which the public voted for the name ...
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Some of the women behind our vulture conservation work
Franziska Lörcher: VCF ´s scientific and conservation coordinator “Vultures are pretty bad-ass ...
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The most recent newsletter of IUCN´s Vulture Specialist Group published
The IUCN Species Survival Commission’s Vulture Specialist Group (VSG) is dedicated to ...
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Here comes the next one – Egyptian vulture Faia is on her way north!
After Egyptian vulture Poiares reached the wintering grounds in Mali in late ...
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Egyptian vultures go into the classroom in the Douro!
The LIFE RUPIS project aims to implement actions to strengthen the populations ...
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More bad news from Africa – 87 vultures poisoned to death in Mozambique
Only one week ago we reported on the latest mass-poisoning of vultures ...
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Dispatches from the field: 3 pairs of bearded vultures incubating in Vanoise while breeding has been confirmed (at long last!) in the Écrins (Alps)
Bearded vultures became extinct in the Alps in the beginning of the ...
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New paper: Antibiotics found in carcasses left in vulture supplementary feeding sites in Portugal
Antibiotics have been beneficial for human and animal health. However, an excessive ...
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Diary of the migration – the journey of the Egyptian vulture Douro
From the Sahel desert to the canyons of the Douro, it took ...
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