news
Check out the latest news and stories about vultures and our conservation work
Tizón moves further south – he is now close to Bamako
Tizón- the young Egyptian vulture tagged on the 24th September in the ...
Read More →
Breaking news – Pair of bearded vultures build nest in Cazorla, 30 years after the last nesting in the wild
Staff from the Junta de Andalucia have confirmed that a pair of ...
Read More →
Record year in the bearded vulture alpine reintroduction project: 31 territories and 19 young fledged in the wild, the highest ever
Annual meeting of theproject partners celebrated this remarkable comeback and planned the ...
Read More →
Tizón has been enjoying Mali
After crossing the Sahara desert over Mauritania, Tizón seems to be enjoying ...
Read More →
Bearded vulture captive breeding network – busy times preparing the next breeding season! Prague Zoo has just received a new adult pair
On the 14th of October a pair of bearded vultures born in ...
Read More →
New paper highlights the importance of Afar region in Ethiopia for wintering Egyptian vultures
Photo Bruno Barthémy/VCF A paper published recently in Ostrich provides evidence of ...
Read More →
Thank you to all volunteers that have joined us in the International Bearded Vulture Observation Days!
The international bearded vulture observation days took place from the 10 – ...
Read More →
The Middle-East – a sink for vultures
The news coming from the Middle–East – particularly during these days – ...
Read More →
Nature´s editorial: Europe must act to stop livestock drugs from wiping out its vulture populations
http://www.nature.com/news/toxic-influence-1.16190?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews Thank you NATURE! EU, please ban vet diclofenac!
Read More →
Significant contributions to document the impact of the trade in vulture parts for traditional medicine in Africa published
Trade on wildlife products is a major driver of biodiversity loss worldwide. ...
Read More →
Project buseu – how vultures are helping recover an abandoned village
La Aventura del Saber. Proyecto Buseu Buseu project is a great initiative ...
Read More →
NATURE reports on diclofenac, other veterinary drugs and vultures
http://www.nature.com/news/poisoned-vulture-could-herald-european-bird-crisis-1.16161 The recently published evidence about the death of a griffon vulture ...
Read More →
New study shows that African bearded vulture populations have reduced genetic variability and have little interpopulation variability
A recent paper published in Ibis (link) providesnew data on the genetic variation within, evolutionary ...
Read More →
Ouf – still alive! Tizón the Egyptian vulture is already in Mali!
After an anxious waiting of several days for a signal from its ...
Read More →
VCF and Generalitat of Catalonia sign important agreement for the conservation of Bearded Vultures
The VCF will be signing today a collaboration agreement with the Departament ...
Read More →
New paper published with first reported case of a griffon vulture being killed by a veterinary drug in Spain
Photo VCF On the same day that a EU public consultation on ...
Read More →
VCF submits reasoned opinion for the public consultation on veterinary diclofenac
The Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) has been leading a campaign together with ...
Read More →
Veterinary diclofenac in Europe – we know what it did to India´s vultures & there is an alternative – so WHY?
This is indeed the question that tens of thousands of concerned citizens ...
Read More →
Vultures in Europe – a future foretold?
Vultures – a future foretold. Frontiers in Ecology Vultures a future foretold.pdf ...
Read More →
Tizón, the young Egyptian vulture released in Extremadura, is already in Southern Morocco
Tizón , the young Egyptian Vulture released on the 24th September in ...
Read More →