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African white-backed vulture seen in Portugal
Last week (24th August) an African white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) has been ...
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New LIFE project on bearded vulture in the French Alps will be launched on the International Vulture Awareness Day
To celebrate the 2014 International Vulture Awareness Day, Asters (Conservatoire des Espaces ...
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International Vulture Awareness Day is this weekend. Let´s all celebrate vultures!
This weekend will see another International Vulture Awareness Day (see http://www.vultureday.org/2014/) – ...
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Poison – the silent killer. Unseen, undetected and underreported, poison is nevertheless here, as some figures recently released in Spain show
Photo Inigo Fajardo/VCF Vulture conservationists, researchers and enthusiast all know this – ...
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One more Egyptian vulture found poisoned in France
Photo by Eric Kobierzyck/LPO The League Pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) ...
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Bearded vulture and hydropower in the Swiss Alps – a good vote!
Photo Bruno Barthémy/VCF Switzerland is famous for its referenda – and also ...
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Vet diclofenac in Europe- While the EU Commission drags its feet; the issue remains very much alive in the minds of Europeans.
The EU commission has recently clarified that it WILL send a request ...
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Breeding population of Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus in Serbia slowly increasing
The 2014 griffon vulture population in Serbia totalled between 138 and 144 ...
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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 ...
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Three new bearded vulture pairs in the French Pyrenees!
Photo Bruno Barthémy/VCF The preliminary results of this year´s breeding season at ...
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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 ...
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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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