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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 ...
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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 ...
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Corsica: Juvenile bearded vulture tagged successfully for the second consecutive year
Last month a team from the Corsica Regional Park (Parc Naturel Régional ...
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VCF new poster – griffon vulture reintroduction in the Balkans
The VCF has produced a poster about the remarkable results of the ...
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Vultures & diclofenac in today´s Tages Anzeiger (in German)
Diclofenac & Vultures in Today´s Tages Anzeiger 2014-0718TagesAnzeiger.pdf Adobe Acrobat Document 729.4 ...
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Bearded vultures in Stelvio National Park and the Ötztal Alps (Italy)
The reintroduction of the bearded vulture to the Alps is one of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Egyptian vulture – decline in the Balkans continuing
The colleagues from the LIFE+ project “The Return of the Neophron” have ...
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Well known vulture and raptor traders imprisoned
Landmark court sentence good news to curb the growing illegal trade on ...
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Casseur d´os – twenty years old and going strong
Remarkable story of a network of people in love with bearded vultures ...
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Schils and Noel-Leya are getting independent
The young bearded vultures Noel-Leya and Schils were brought to the Calfeisen ...
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New significant breeding nucleus of Egyptian Vultures found in Turkey
The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is one of the most endangered vulture ...
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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, ...
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Tagged Egyptian vulture killed for the traditional medicine trade in West Africa
It is well known that Africa vultures are declining across most of ...
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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. ...
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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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And here we go to a new life – bearded vultures released in the Grands Causses fledged!
On the 20th June Adonis and Jacinthe, the two young bearded vultures ...
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Indian vulture conservationist makes emotive plea to FATRO – please stop manufacturing diclofenac!
Indian colleagues involved in saving the last few vultures in the Indian ...
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Two more Egyptian vultures tagged in Eastern Turkey in a VCF supported project
The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is one of the most endangered vulture ...
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