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Black vulture chick doing well in Douro Valley
Fantastic news from the black vultures of the Douro Valley. Following a ...
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Fighting for vultures in the Balkans – Excellent progress in Macedonia within the Balkan Anti-Poisoning Project!
A significant breakthrough has been made in establishing cooperation with relevant government ...
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Egyptian vulture Rupis invades the schools – a day with the LIFE Rupis environmental education programme
School class from Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo on a field visit to ...
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Release season continues with another bearded vulture reintroduction in Andalusia (22nd May)
The bearded vulture release season kicked off a few weeks ago in ...
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Bearded vulture reintroductions: New project in Maestrazgo kicks off in style
The new bearded vulture reintroduction project in the Maestrazgo region, which has ...
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Fighting illegal poisoning of vultures in the Balkans – setting a baseline for anti-poisoning work in Albania
One of the objectives of the Balkan Anti-poison project (BAPP), an integral ...
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One more bearded vulture will be released tomorrow in Andalusia
This year the VCF and its partners will release at least 13 ...
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Celebrating the Egyptian vulture on World Migratory Birds Day, 2018.
World Migratory Bird Day is being celebrated this weekend, 12-13th May 2018, ...
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One step closer to bring black vultures back to Bulgaria – 1st black vultures transported from Spain to the Balkans
The first 12 black vultures from Spain that will be reintroduced in ...
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Mitigating the threat of electrocution in Iran – the excellent work of the Iran´s Bird and Powerlines Committee
The recently approved Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (MsAP) – a global blueprint ...
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Helping vultures by reinforcing wild ungulates in Bulgaria – 138 deer have already been translocated to the Eastern Rhodopes as part of the LIFE RE Vultures
One of the aims of the LIFE project “Conservation of Black and ...
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Reintroducing bearded vultures to the wild – release season is starting this Sunday!
This year the VCF and its partners will release at least 13 ...
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What are the released griffons in Sardinia up to? One of them went to visit the other side of the island – all maps are now on-line
At least 7 of the 8 griffon vultures released in the LIFE ...
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Breeding bearded vulture dies after colliding with cable in Vanoise – single partner continues to take care of the chick
Collision with the energy infrastructure or the ski lifts has been identified ...
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Update on Vulture Research
Latest vulture science analysed: Movementsof Egyptian vultures in the Middle East and ...
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Working for vultures globally – Multi-species Action Plan to Conserve African-Eurasian Vultures (Vulture MsAP) took centre stage in the Flyways Summit
The Vulture MsAP – a global conservation plan to protect 15 species ...
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Zero mortality of migrating raptors – including thousands of migrating griffon and Egyptian vultures – on a wind farm in Portugal with shut on demand method
mWind energy is considered a clean energy source, but produces negative impacts ...
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Banning Diclofenac in Portugal – light at the end of the tunnel?
Last week the Portuguese Parliament approved a motion recommending the Portuguese Government ...
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And Rupis reappears from the darkness – 4 out of 5 Egyptian vultures tagged in the Douro are still transmitting – while Sara is still in Africa
A few weeks after Douro and Faia made it all the way ...
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Do we have a baby bearded vulture in the Écrins National Park (France)?
After a long wait, bearded vultures started to breed this year in ...
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