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Five Rueppell´s vultures observed together in Portugal
Photo Inigo fajardo/VCF On the 4th of August, a Portuguese birdwatcher (João …
Three new bearded vulture pairs in the French Pyrenees!
Photo Bruno Barthémy/VCF The preliminary results of this year´s breeding season at …
Now online: information and guidelines about the european black vulture captive breeding network (EEP)
Captive breeding can be a powerful for in situ conservation projects, namely …
Bearded vulture reintroduction projects in Europe: 9 young released this year in 4 sites in Austria, Switzerland, France and Spain
VCF is recovering the species in Europe, but globally it is still …
Bearded vulture uplisted from Least Concern to Near Threatened at global level in the 2014 IUCN bird red list update
Declines in Africa and Asia drove this change – the species is …
Corsica: Juvenile bearded vulture tagged successfully for the second consecutive year
Last month a team from the Corsica Regional Park (Parc Naturel Régional …
VCF new poster – griffon vulture reintroduction in the Balkans
The VCF has produced a poster about the remarkable results of the …
Vultures & diclofenac in today´s Tages Anzeiger (in German)
Diclofenac & Vultures in Today´s Tages Anzeiger 2014-0718TagesAnzeiger.pdf Adobe Acrobat Document 729.4 …
Bearded vultures in Stelvio National Park and the Ötztal Alps (Italy)
The reintroduction of the bearded vulture to the Alps is one of …
IUCN Director-General adds her voice to the VCF campaign to ban veterinary diclofenac
Veterinary diclofenac has caused a 99% decline in the once formidable vulture …
Two more Egyptian vultures tagged in Eastern Turkey in a VCF-supported project
Two more Egyptian vultures, Serhat, an adult, and Memba, a juvenile, have …
Egyptian vulture – decline in the Balkans continuing
The colleagues from the LIFE+ project “The Return of the Neophron” have …
Well known vulture and raptor traders imprisoned
Landmark court sentence good news to curb the growing illegal trade on …
Casseur d´os – twenty years old and going strong
Remarkable story of a network of people in love with bearded vultures …
Schils and Noel-Leya are getting independent
The young bearded vultures Noel-Leya and Schils were brought to the Calfeisen …
New significant breeding nucleus of Egyptian Vultures found in Turkey
The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is one of the most endangered vulture …
Thousands of French farmers, livestock breeders and hunters protest in the Pyrenees against the rewilding of the mountains
Last Saturday a street protest organised by a number of regional farming, …
Tagged Egyptian vulture killed for the traditional medicine trade in West Africa
It is well known that Africa vultures are declining across most of …
New paper published on the spatial ecology of the endangered Egyptian vulture in Spain
Food predictability determines space use of endangered vultures – Lopez-Lopez et al. …
New improved guidelines for captive breeding of bearded vultures have just been published by the VCF
Guidelines and recommendations for the captive breeding of bearded vulture – 2nd …
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