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Tizón is still in western Mali

Tizón – the young Egyptian vulture tagged last September in Spain – ...
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The silent killer strikes again – this time in Israel. Four griffon and two black vultures found poisoned in a rare case in the country

Poison is the biggest threat to vultures worldwide – that is why ...
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Captive breeding of Egyptian vultures – results from 2014

Captive breeding can be a very effective conservation tool – the captive ...
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Another chick born in the bearded vulture captive breeding network –and with it days of intensive work start!

Bearded vulture chicks have been hatching left, right and centre across the ...
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Prominent Serbian vulture researcher launches today book about griffon vultures

Bratislav Grubac is a researcher at the Serbian Institute for Nature Conservation, ...
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Another mass poisoning of vultures in Asia – at least 20 Himalayan griffon vultures dead in India

In recent years there have been increasing reports of widespread use of ...
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Egyptian vultures still hanging on in Cape Verde! VCF, CIBIO and University of Cape Verde started a survey of the rare species in the archipelago

The Egyptian Vulture is a globally endangered species, with almost all populations ...
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Italian experts and conservation managers discussed the pros and cons of feeding stations for scavenger bird species

Over 150 people from all over Italy participated in a conference on ...
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Come and meet the VCF at this weekend´s FIO (International Birdwatching Fair) (Monfrague, Spain)

The 10th FIO will be held in Monfragüe National Park (Extremadura, Spain), ...
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VCF and Junta de Extremadura start a new project to monitor a unique wintering population of Egyptian Vulture in Iberia

Two birdshave been caught and tagged Extremadura has about 175 breeding pairs ...
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The miracle of LIFE in the bearded vulture captive breeding network

This is one of the busiest periods of the year for us ...
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Breeding season 2015 – and another chick hatched in Tierpark Goldau

More good news from Switzerland – a chick hatched from one of ...
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GYPAS project: 12 more griffon vultures released last week to restock the endangered population in Cyprus

On the 5th & 6 of February 12 griffon vultures have been ...
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Hatching bearded vultures – busy times at the captive breeding network!

One hundred years after going extinct in the Alps, the bearded vulture ...
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Breaking news – the pair of bearded vultures that has built a nest in Cazorla (Andalucia) has now laid eggs!

Another important milestone in the fantastic project to restore thisspecies in Andalucía. ...
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On Kirma and commitment to a cause – how intensive care and a lot of expertise rehabilitated a severely injured bearded vulture back into breeding

The bearded vulture captive breeding season in now in full swing – ...
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End of an era – one of the most prolific bearded vultures in our captive breeding network died on the same day his last chick hatched.

Maybe it was just a coincidence, but one cannot escape thinking that ...
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Bearded Vulture monitoring report for the French Alps – Life GypHelp

In the framework of the Life Project “GypHelp”, the Vulture Conservation Foundation ...
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The VCF and prominent Spanish scientists alert to a new threat to Iberian vultures – the proposal  to eliminate all by-products of hunted wild ungulates

The regional Agriculture Agency of Castilla-La Mancha (Consejería de Agricultura) has recently ...
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Vultures die of old age too – female bearded vulture left us at age 49!

The oldest female present in the bearded vulture captive breeding network (coordinated ...
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