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The VCF will be tomorrow in Annecy co-leading a seminar on lead poisoning and bearded vultures
As part of the LIFE GYPHELP project, in which the VCF is ...
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And he made it to Libya – Tobia the Egyptian vulture had already survived a night in Malta, now he landed in Misurata
Our Italian colleagues that have been following Tobia – the male captive ...
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Tobia the Egyptian vulture made it to Malta – and survived the ordeal, after having been guarded all night long by conservationists and the police!
After Agata and Sara were released in Puglia in late August (see ...
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The story of IFP – or how vulture conservation is really a transnational affair
It is well known that vultures fly long distances, and many individuals ...
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The VCF was present in the meeting on Mediterranean Raptors held recently in Italy
The Meeting on the conservation of Mediterranean Raptors “Sotto il segno del ...
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Sara made it to the winter grounds – she is in Niger!
After crossing the Mediterranean in a record 540km flight from Sicily to ...
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Seminar on lead poisoning and bearded vultures – Annecy (Haute Savoie, France), 28 September 2015
As part of the LIFE GYPHELP project, in which the VCF is ...
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Egyptian Vultures wintering in Extremadura (Spain): a summary
The VCF and the Regional Government of Extremadura (GOBEX) have been monitoring ...
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One more griffon vulture shot in Lebanon – the Middle East continues to be a sink for vultures and other soaring birds
The indiscriminate, widespread and intense killing of vultures, eagles and other birds ...
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Good breeding season for bearded vultures in the Alps – more pairs (34) and one more wild born chicks fledged (20) than last year
After extinction in the beginning of the 20th century, bearded vultures started ...
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Agata drowns in the Mediterranean while Sara has crossed the Messina strait to Sicily – in the meantime 4 other captive bred Egyptian vultures were released in
Agata and Sara, the two female Egyptian vultures born in captivity, had ...
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New paper published on the role of supplementary feeding on the conservation of Egyptian vultures in France
Egyptian vultures are declining almost everywhere across its range, and due to ...
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Today it is the International Vulture Awareness Day, and VCF has a message – Ban killer drug diclofenac or Europe’s vultures may face extinction!
The VCF warns that today´s International Vulture Awareness Day could be one ...
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Spreading the word – vultures are beautiful, necessary and endangered! International Vulture Awareness Day, 5th September
Vultures play a vital ecological role in our ecosystems, yet they face ...
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Help spread awareness on vultures – share your vulture pictures with National Geographic!
As part of the International Vulture Awareness Day (5th September, see here), ...
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News on the two captive bred Egyptian vultures released last week in Italy
The two young Egyptian vultures released last week in Puglia – part ...
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Two captive bred Egyptian vultures released in Italy
Last week two young Egyptian vultures bred in captivity were released in ...
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The first baby Griffon Vulture born in the Balkan Mountains for almost a century baptized as Michel – a deserved celebration of one of VCF´s mentors
For more than a decade our Bulgarian colleagues have been dreaming about ...
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Vultures in West and Central Africa threatened by trade for bushmeat and fetish
We already knew that the situation with vultures in Africa was dire ...
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