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VCF adds its voice to conservationists in Southern Africa that ask for a serious evaluation of impacts of pre-approved wind farm in Lesotho
Development could further endanger the Southern Africa’s rare bearded vultures Globally, two ...
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Great start of the year at La Garenne Zoo
The captive bearded vulture pair at Zoo La Garenne (Switzerland) – one ...
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Lead still threatening the Californian condor… and the bearded vultures in the Alps!
The article below gives a poignant report on how lead from hunting ...
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Black vultures reach historical record in Extremadura
The breeding population of black vultures nesting in Extremadura (western Spain) has ...
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International Bearded Vulture observation days – first results
The international bearded vulture observation days were a success, despite low visibility ...
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VCF in the New Year – 3 great successes and 3 challenges for the future
Following a short break, the VCF is back to work for vultures ...
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46 cape griffon vultures found poisoned in South Africa. Latest in a string of poisoning incidents that proves that this threat is decimating vultures across the African continent
In recent months there have been increasing reports of widespread use of ...
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Spanish bearded vulture researcher gets prize from University of Berne
The 2013 Prize for Environmental Research was awarded to Dr. Antoni Margalida, ...
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New film online
The Swiss Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (ProBartGeier) has ...
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First Griffon vultures released yesterday in Cyprus to restock the small island population. The last batch of griffon vultures had arrived from Crete two weeks ago
Griffon vultures are on the verge of extinction in Cyprus, with only ...
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First-ever captive breeding of the endangered Canary Islands Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus majorensis
The Egyptian vulture is a globally endangered species, which has been declining ...
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Griffon vulture released in Bulgaria shows up in France
For the first time ever, a griffon vulture released in Bulgaria, as ...
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Another mass poisoning of vultures in Africa – 37 white-backed vultures dead in Zululand, South Africa
In recent years there have been increasing reports of widespread use of ...
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Young Egyptian vultures from the Balkans suffer high loss during their first migration – would they fare differently if they travelled with adults? Data suggests that the overland route
As part of the LIFE+ project “The return of the Neophron” (LIFE10 ...
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Bearded vulture shot and killed in the French Pyrénées Atlantiques
One would think that direct persecution and the shooting of vultures was ...
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The bearded vulture breeding season has just started!
During the lasts weeks almost all pairs of bearded vultures in the EEP (ex-situ ...
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New scientific paper uncovers significant decline in Southern Africa’s bearded vultures
A recently published paper (Krűger et al, 2013, Bird Conservation International: Trends in ...
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VCF and Junta de Andalucía work together to help the griffon restocking project in Bulgaria
Following a request from the NGO Green Balkans, who is leading a ...
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Black vulture shot in Lebanon. Middle East continues to be a sink for vultures and other soaring birds
The indiscriminate, widespread and intense killing of vultures, eagles and other birds ...
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Celebrating the comeback of the mountain king in the Annual Bearded Vulture Meeting
Exactly one hundred years (and eleven days, to be more precise…) after ...
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