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How LIFE GypConnect is reintroducing the Bearded Vulture to Baronnies

The LIFE GYPCONNECT project aims to reintroduce a population of Bearded Vultures into the ...
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Griffon Vulture pair laid a second egg in Green Balkans’ centre!

The Griffon Vultures at the Green Balkans’ Wildlife rehabilitation and breeding centre ...
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Guidelines for feeding Bearded Vultures in captivity are now also available in Bulgarian and Russian

The Bearded Vulture reintroduction programme is one of the most celebrated and ...
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Recent wildlife poisoning in Croatia left many animal casualties

Unfortunately, illegal wildlife poisoning struck again, this time killing wild and domestic ...
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Mass poisoning causes a heavy blow to the largest colony of Griffon Vultures in mainland Greece

We are devastated to report that eleven Griffon Vultures fell victim to ...
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Yet another Portuguese Cinereous Vulture returned to the wild after rescue and rehabilitation

On Thursday 6 February, another Cinereous Vulture returned back to its natural ...
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More fallow deer released in the Eastern Rhodopes to help improve the natural food availability for vultures

As of early February, another 14 fallow deer have settled in the ...
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Results from the first Griffon Vulture census of the decade in Cyprus

Every year, BirdLife Cyprus coordinates two large-scale Griffon Vulture surveys, one in ...
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The fascinating travels of the young Griffon Vulture T89

This mid-January, HOS/BirdLife Greece observed two immature Griffon vultures flying for several days on ...
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Sign the petition to help protect Egyptian Vultures in Aragon (Spain)

The construction and imminent commissioning of a wind farm in the Cinco ...
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Watch directly from the nest the Bearded Vulture pair from Valsavarenche during this breeding period

For the second season in a row, a special webcam installed by ...
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The Griffon Vultures at the Green Balkans’ Wildlife Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre were given the chance to lay a second egg

The Griffon Vultures at the Green Balkans’ Wildlife Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre were given ...
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Meet Kobe – the first captive-bred Bearded Vulture chick of the season!

Captive breeding of Bearded Vultures is essential for the reintroduction or reinforcement ...
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Griffon Vultures colonised Mallorca and joined the resident Cinereous Vultures – a novel project now studies the consequences of this phenomenon

In 2008, the Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) arrived in the Balearic Islands in an ...
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Highlights from the Anti-Poisoning and Wildlife Crime in Albania workshop

A national workshop in Albania took place on 24 January 2020 to ...
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Live nest cameras: a peek inside the lives of three Griffon Vulture breeding pairs in Israel

With the help of special nest cameras, all vulture lovers can watch ...
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An unlikely pairing: Rüppell’s Vulture breeding with Griffon Vulture in Spain

New evidence suggests two cases of a Rüppell’s Vulture breeding with a ...
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Attracting Cinereous Vulture pairs in Kotel Mountain

The Vultures Back To LIFE project aims to establish a nesting population of the ...
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Restoring Bearded Vulture populations in nature requires help from zoos

For the past few decades, we have been part of the coordinated ...
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Results from the three methods used to release captive-bred Egyptian Vultures in the Eastern Rhodopes in 2019

The Egyptian Vulture New LIFE project tested three methods for the release of captive-bred ...
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