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Griffon vultures tagged in Lago di Cornino (Italy) – follow their movements in our home page
On the 4th of July, five griffon vultures have been marked with ...
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La VCF e altre organizzazioni europee di conservazione della natura richiedono il divieto dell’uso veterinario del Diclofenac, un farmaco che uccide gli avvolto
La Fondazione per la Conservazione degli Avvoltoi (VCF), la SEO / BirdLife, ...
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The VCF and four other European nature conservation organizations call for a ban on veterinary diclofenac, a drug that kills vultures
The Vulture Conservation Foundation, SEO/BirdLife, SPEA (BirdLife in Portugal), BirdLife Europe and ...
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Bearded vultures in the Alps – with 45 territories, another record-breaking breeding season
Bearded vultures continue to increase in the Alps, and confirm that the ...
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Black vulture breeds successfully for the third year in a row in Alentejo (Portugal)
Only three years after recolonising southern Portugal, and more than 40 years ...
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The Ecosystem services provided by vultures
Excellent short video explaining the ecosystem services provided by vultures, produced by ...
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Newsletter of the LIFE Re Vultures project is out!
The second newsletter of the LIFE Re Vultures project is out – ...
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The 2017 Alpine summering griffon vulture census is coming – 19th August
This summer´s census of summering griffon vultures in the western Alps will ...
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EU visits the LIFE Rupis project
Two years after the LIFE Rupis project started, and when the project ...
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News from the LIFE Re vultures – more griffon vultures from the Rodopes-Dadia area (Bulgaria/Greece) tracked
Ten more griffon vultures (nine adults and one immature) were fitted with ...
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The Africa vulture crisis continues unabated – at least 100 vultures poisoned in two separate incidents
The plight of African vultures has already reached the international conservation agenda, ...
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Tomorrow´s Greek vultures will depend on today´s Greek children
Vulture conservation often requires changes to people´s behavior – stopping using poison ...
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Bearded vultures and lead poisoning – lead-free pilot sites on the cards in the French Pyrenees
Lead (Pb) is a metabolic poison that can negatively influence biological processes, ...
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Training of Portuguese partners on tagging vultures with GPS tags
As part of the LIFE RUPIS project, the VCF and its partners ...
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The adventures of a cinereous vulture in Jordan
The cinereous vulture is a rare passage migrant and/or winter visitor in ...
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Have you ever seen a pig flying? And a griffon swimming?
The Medraptors blog recently brought us a wonderful story – see photos ...
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New paper – bearded vulture foraging behaviour in the Pyrenees unaffected by policy-driven carcass management measures
The potential availability of food for vultures and other scavenging birds in ...
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Even Meerkats detect the decline of African vultures! (paper)
Vulture populations are experiencing rapid declines in many parts of the globe, ...
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All Egyptian vulture’s roads lead to the Douro – or the case of Tizón!
Last weekend Domingos Leitão, the director of the Portuguese Society for the ...
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Help needed for translation of Der Falke magazine from German to English
VCF is still looking for volunteer translators (preferably native English speakers who ...
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