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Prison, fine and hunting disqualification for a hunter who poisoned four vultures in Spain
Some justice was recently served for four vultures that were killed from ...
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Griffon Vulture pair lays the first clutch of the year in Sardinia
The Griffon Vulture egg laying period kicks off in Sardinia as the LIFE ...
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Bearded Vulture (c) Hansruedi Weyrich
The 2019/20 Bearded Vulture breeding season in the wild got off to an early ...
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What duties do Egyptian Vulture pairs share during the breeding period?
The Egyptian Vulture New LIFE project recently published a study revealing insights into the ...
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Weak Griffon Vulture rescued in the Var (France)
On 8 January 2020, a young Griffon Vulture arrived at Le Centre ...
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Released Egyptian Vulture Kate found dead in Western Sicily after spending only two months on the island
Captive-bred Egyptian Vulture Kate was found dead in Western Sicily in early ...
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Necropsy performed on two Griffon Vultures in Bulgaria
Two dead Griffon Vultures were recently admitted to the Green Balkans’ Wildlife Rehabilitation and ...
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The Stolen Wildlife Campaign just released the second series of awareness photographs
The Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) supports the Stolen Wildlife campaign to help raise awareness ...
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The GPS movements of the first-ever wild Portuguese Cinereous Vulture tagged stopped. What happened?
During the summer of 2018, we tagged the first wild Cinereous Vulture nestling in ...
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The Bearded Vulture breeding trio in Ecrins laid an egg for the 3rd consecutive year
In 2018, vulture lovers and conservationists rejoiced when after more than a century of ...
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Competition: Win a GPS tag – suitable for Griffon or Cinereous Vultures
We teamed up with Ecotone Telemetry to give away a GPS transmitter to a ...
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Cinereous Vulture in Spain killed by ingesting illegal poisoned bait
Vultures’ biggest threat struck again, this time killing a Cinereous Vulture found near Madrid, ...
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Gulper, ripper and scrapper: anatomy of the neck in three species of vultures
A recently published journal analysed the highly complex neck anatomy of three ...
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Five feeding sites built in the Greek part of Rhodope Mountains as part of LIFE Re-Vultures
The primary conservation objective of the LIFE Re-Vultures project in the Greek part of ...
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Another mass poisoning in Zululand causes alarm for the future of vultures in the region
Unfortunately, yet another mass poisoning incident occurred in Africa, ending 2019 on ...
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Vulture Conservation – 2019 Overview
From reintroducing a record of 22 Bearded Vultures into the wild to ...
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Bearded Vulture Conservation – 2019 Overview
The bone-eating Bearded Vulture is the rarest vulture in Europe. Today, there are around ...
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Egyptian Vulture Conservation – 2019 Overview
The migratory Egyptian Vulture is unfortunately considered Endangered at a global level. ...
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Cinereous Vulture Conservation – 2019 Overview
One of the world’s largest raptors, the Cinereous Vulture is making a comeback in ...
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Griffon Vulture Conservation – 2019 Overview
The most social of Europe’s vultures, the Griffon Vulture, is making an extraordinary comeback ...
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