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Looking back to another successful bearded vulture release season – but two birds unfortunately died
A total of 18 young bearded vultures was released this year in ...
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New paper – southern Africa bearded vultures productivity is decreasing
In southern Africa the bearded vulture occurs in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountain range ...
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Bearded vulture seen in Poland
A young bearded vulture with plumage typical of a second calendar year ...
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Vote to name three Egyptian vultures tagged in the Douro
Three of the five Egyptian vultures captured and tagged in the Douro ...
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Griffon breeding colony in Portugal significantly affected by major fire
At least 18 young griffon vultures died in a major fire that ...
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Spanish court confirms that an electricity utility should pay a fine of 26,000€ for the electrocution of vultures
A Spanish court in Albacete has confirmed recently, in a landmark case, ...
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A survey of attitudes towards vulture conservation in the Bulgarian Rodopi regions
As part of the LIFE project “Conservation of Black and Griffon vultures ...
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The bearded vulture in the French Pyrenees – 43 pairs last year, 44 this year, and an improvement of productivity after a decade of stagnation
The results of the bearded vulture monitoring and research done by the ...
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One more Egyptian vulture has been captured and tagged in the Douro – 5 so far!
In the late afternoon of the 19th July, a team from Palombar ...
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Griffon vultures tagged in Lago di Cornino (Italy) – follow their movements in our home page
On the 4th of July, five griffon vultures have been marked with ...
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La VCF e altre organizzazioni europee di conservazione della natura richiedono il divieto dell’uso veterinario del Diclofenac, un farmaco che uccide gli avvolto
La Fondazione per la Conservazione degli Avvoltoi (VCF), la SEO / BirdLife, ...
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The VCF and four other European nature conservation organizations call for a ban on veterinary diclofenac, a drug that kills vultures
The Vulture Conservation Foundation, SEO/BirdLife, SPEA (BirdLife in Portugal), BirdLife Europe and ...
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Bearded vultures in the Alps – with 45 territories, another record-breaking breeding season
Bearded vultures continue to increase in the Alps, and confirm that the ...
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Black vulture breeds successfully for the third year in a row in Alentejo (Portugal)
Only three years after recolonising southern Portugal, and more than 40 years ...
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The Ecosystem services provided by vultures
Excellent short video explaining the ecosystem services provided by vultures, produced by ...
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Newsletter of the LIFE Re Vultures project is out!
The second newsletter of the LIFE Re Vultures project is out – ...
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The 2017 Alpine summering griffon vulture census is coming – 19th August
This summer´s census of summering griffon vultures in the western Alps will ...
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EU visits the LIFE Rupis project
Two years after the LIFE Rupis project started, and when the project ...
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News from the LIFE Re vultures – more griffon vultures from the Rodopes-Dadia area (Bulgaria/Greece) tracked
Ten more griffon vultures (nine adults and one immature) were fitted with ...
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The Africa vulture crisis continues unabated – at least 100 vultures poisoned in two separate incidents
The plight of African vultures has already reached the international conservation agenda, ...
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