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Check out the latest news and stories about vultures and our conservation work
Black vulture seen in Lisbon
An immature black vulture was seen last Sunday (3rd September) in Queluz, ...
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Almost 2500 griffon vultures counted summering in the western Alps in 2017 – an increase of 40% on previous years
This summer´s census of summering griffon vultures in the western Alps, which ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 2 – Bearded vulture – did you know…?
…that 100 years after the killing of the last wild bearded vulture ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 1 – Griffon vulture – did you know…?
…that Spain has around 25,000 pairs of griffon vulture, up from only ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 6 – vet diclofenac – did you know…?
…that the legal sale of vet diclofenac in Europe is now putting ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 5 – European vultures – did you know…?
…that Europe is now the “reservoir” of the old-world species, and the ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 4 – European black vulture – did you know…?
…that the species has increased substantially in Spain, from 250 pairs in ...
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International Vulture Day is today – Post 3 – Egyptian vulture – did you know…?
…that the Egyptian vulture is the only European species still declining? It ...
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International Vulture Awareness Day is coming – some of our zoo partners are organizing great events!
International Vulture Awareness Day is already this weekend, and some of our ...
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Egyptian vulture Faia is already in Africa!
Barely two days after leaving the Douro region, the female Egyptian vulture ...
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Three Egyptian vultures tagged in the Douro named – and one of them has already started the migration to Africa.
The three adult Egyptian vultures captured and tagged this summer within the ...
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Another step towards the adoption of the Vulture MsAP – all together 4 Vultures!
The Vulture multi-Species Action Plan – an ambitious but badly needed global ...
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Mixed results in this year´s experimental release of captive-bred Egyptian vultures in Italy – 1 bird died and 2 had to be recaptured, but Apollo is doing well
Early this month four young Egyptian vultures, all captive-bred in the Egyptian ...
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Bearded vulture reintroduction projects 2017 – stories from the field II: Cleo broke her wing just before release but is still flying free above Andalusia
A total of 18 young bearded vultures was released this Spring-Summer in ...
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Bearded vulture reintroduction projects 2017 – stories from the field I: the long flight of Durzon!
A total of 18 young bearded vultures was released this Spring-Summer in ...
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Two bearded vulture chicks fledge in the wild in Andalusia
Following the first breeding in the wild two years ago, after extinction ...
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International Vulture Awareness Day is already on the 2nd September!
Vultures play a very important role in the world´s ecosystem – they ...
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85% decline of an urban Hooded Vulture population in Dakar, Senegal, over 50 years – new paper
The plight of African vultures has already reached the international conservation agenda, ...
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Young Egyptian vultures flying everywhere in the Douro canyon
The LIFE RUPIS teams continue to monitor the breeding Egyptian vultures in ...
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