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Update on the efforts to establish captive breeding programme for the Southern Africa bearded vulture

Following a long term decline of southern Africa´s bearded vultures – the ...
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Three captive-bred Egyptian vultures were released in Northern Bulgaria

Last Wednesday a team from the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of ...
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VCF and the Swiss Foundation Pro Bartgeier release new film about the reintroduction of bearded vultures in the Swiss Alps

Alois and Cierzo are the two male bearded vultures released this year ...
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Three more captive-bred Egyptian vultures will be released this year in Bulgaria

Following the release of 6 captive-bred Egyptian vultures last year in Italy, ...
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After a long tour in Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Romania, bearded vulture Adonis is coming back

After an extraordinary 8 week tour that saw young bearded vulture Adonis ...
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Egyptian vulture Rupis exploring Spain and Portugal

Rupis – the subadult Egyptian vulture which was captured and tagged in ...
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Black vulture breeds again successfully in Douro International

The single pair of black vulture that established itself in the Douro ...
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Call for volunteers for the 2016 Alpine summering griffon vulture census – 20 August 2016

Since 2010 a census of summering griffon vultures has been carried out, ...
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IUCN opens two positions to work on the Bangladesh vulture conservation initiative

In the last two years the Bangladesh National Vulture Recovery Committee (BNVRC) ...
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Causes for breeding failure in Balkan Egyptian vultures – new report

The Egyptian vulture is Europe’s most threatened vulture species – classified as ...
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The bearded vulture in Corsica – summary of the current situation

This year the bearded vulture population in Corsica has further decreased to ...
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Remember the Egyptian vultures Tobia and Sara? They are still in Africa!

In August and September last year a total of 6 captive-bred Egyptian ...
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Bad news this time: Bearded Vulture Larzac found dead in northern Germany

The young male bearded vulture – named Larzac – that left the ...
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First Egyptian vulture captured and tagged in the Douro valley!

Some days ago a team from Junta de Castilla y Leon, Fundación ...
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Girun and Volcaire flying high!

Girun and Volcaire – the two young captive-bred bearded vultures released in ...
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First newsletter of the LIFE+ GYPCONNECT published – linking bearded vultures from the Alps to the Pyrenees

Ten months after the LIFE+ project GYPCONECT started, you can now read ...
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Luc Hoffmann – a celebration

It is with sadness that we mark the death of Dr Luc ...
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The last bearded vulture released last weekend in Andalusia

With the release of the last single chick in Andalusia on July ...
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Black vulture in Mallorca – new record this breeding season with 25 eggs hatched – but some controversy over access to exclusion areas too

A benign and favourable spring, and years of conservation efforts, resulted in ...
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Bearded vultures released in the Baronnies – a new reintroduction site – finally fledged

Girun and Volcaire  – two young bearded vultures bred in captivity within ...
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