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Working high above the Rhine towards international species action plans
Twenty experts and staff from partner organisation, including from the VCF, spent ...
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New paper vindicates VCF methods – release of captive-bred bearded vultures the best method to restore populations
The VCF has been releasing captive-bred young bearded vultures in the Alps ...
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The VCF visited Bulgaria
The VCF has recently organised its annual meeting of the VCF advisory ...
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Bearded vultures hatched again in the Balkans
The hatching of two captive-bred bearded vultures in the Wildlife Rescue Centre ...
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Preparations underway for the first ever release of Bearded vultures in Baronnies
The Baronnies mountains are the westernmost extremity of the French Pre-Alps – ...
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From Vienna to Tallinn and back – 20 hours on the road for bearded vulture conservation
A team from the VCF and EGS (the Austrian NGO managing the ...
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Egyptian vultures eluded us at the Douro
Last week a team from the VCF, Junta de Castilla y Leon, ...
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Dead bearded vulture found last year in Switzerland had been released in Vercors in 2012
In April 2015 a Swiss game warden called Toni Schmid found, with ...
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MORTALITY CAUSES FOR THE EGYPTIAN VULTURE (NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS) IN BULGARIA AND GREECE (1997-2015)
A recent assessment of the causes of mortality affecting the severely declining ...
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The VCF is recruiting two part-time staff members…
The VCF is now recruiting two new part-time staff to respond to our ...
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The little Altore has been successfully adopted!
Following a gruelling trip from Corsica to Andalusia, the young bearded vulture ...
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One altore across Europe – or how a Corsican bearded vultures chick flew from Bastia to Madrid to be adopted by a captive pair
The Corsican bearded vulture chick hatched artificially on the 18th of March, ...
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The black vulture in France in 2015 – summary
The black vulture went extinct in France in the beginning of the ...
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Drones and vultures – a curse or a blessing?
Several vulture researchers have been alerting to the impact drones may have ...
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One step closer to link bearded vulture populations in the Alps and the Pyrenees
Small supplementary feeding area established instrategic Aude region, promptly investigated by a ...
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Two of the four pairs of bearded vultures nesting in the Parc National de la Vanoise (Alps, France) have been successful
After the first breeding in the wild in 1997 – 11 years ...
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Our own Easter egg has hatched – Corsican bearded vulture chick hatches in the lab, a first in the world!
While most of you are eating – or looking for – Easter ...
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Vote for the bearded vulture – Nature 2000 awards
The project to reintroduce the bearded vulture in Andalusia – led by ...
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New vulture exhibition at the Allwetterzoo in Münster
The Allwetterzoo in Münster (Germany) just opened a new exhibition about vultures ...
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The Egyptian vulture in France: 88 pairs, but a very bad breeding year
The latest report on the situation of the endangered Egyptian vulture in ...
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