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Check out the latest news and stories about vultures and our conservation work
Bearded vulture collage – happy Sunday everyone!
Sending you now a picture of a beautiful collage that the VCF ...
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Halloween at Parc des Oiseaux with bearded vultures!
Parc des Oiseaux is one of the newest partners in the bearded ...
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The Bearded Vulture EEP: a continuously increasing conservation program: Nikolaev zoo (Ukraine) one of the most recent partners
The bearded vulture captive breeding network (organised under an EEP program under ...
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Last preparations for the new bearded vulture breeding season
Summer has finished not so long ago, yet in the bearded vulture ...
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Thank you to all the volunteers who have joined us for the International Bearded Vulture Observation Days!
This Saturday hundreds of observers spent a great day in the field ...
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The International alpine bearded vulture observation day is this Saturday – come and count bearded vultures with us in the Alps!
Last year over 600 observers saw more than 90 different bearded vultures ...
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Bearded vulture exhibition & other events in Haute-Savoie (France)
If you live in the Geneva-Lyon-Annecy area, don´t miss the bearded vulture ...
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Come and count bearded vultures in the Alps with us – International bearded vulture observation day is on the 10th October!
The bearded vulture reintroduction project in the Alps is one of the ...
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New hope for the Egyptian vulture in the Douro canyon (Portugal-Spain)
The Egyptian vulture is Europe’s most threatened vulture species – classified as ...
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Mixed news from the captive-bred Egyptian vultures released in Italy – Aneta drowned in the Med, while Tobia is now in Algeria, and Carmen and Karel prepare to
In August and September a total of 6 captive-bred Egyptian vultures have ...
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Lead poisoning and bearded vultures in the French Alps –significant progress in the seminar this week at Annecy
Frank dialogue and important commitments from both conservation organisations and the hunting ...
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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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