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New paper makes recommendations regarding the management of vulture feeding stations to benefit endangered species
Providing food for vultures in vulture feeding stations (also called vultures restaurants) ...
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Vultures (and other things!) galore at Turkey feeding station
Turkey´s only regularly functioning vulture feeding station continues to surprise us: over ...
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One step closer to ban vet diclofenac in the EU – CMS makes landmark political decision on the matter and recommends its prohibition
The last few weeks saw vulture conservation score a few points against ...
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Tizón moves further south – he is now close to Bamako
Tizón- the young Egyptian vulture tagged on the 24th September in the ...
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Breaking news – Pair of bearded vultures build nest in Cazorla, 30 years after the last nesting in the wild
Staff from the Junta de Andalucia have confirmed that a pair of ...
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Record year in the bearded vulture alpine reintroduction project: 31 territories and 19 young fledged in the wild, the highest ever
Annual meeting of theproject partners celebrated this remarkable comeback and planned the ...
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Tizón has been enjoying Mali
After crossing the Sahara desert over Mauritania, Tizón seems to be enjoying ...
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Bearded vulture captive breeding network – busy times preparing the next breeding season! Prague Zoo has just received a new adult pair
On the 14th of October a pair of bearded vultures born in ...
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New paper highlights the importance of Afar region in Ethiopia for wintering Egyptian vultures
Photo Bruno Barthémy/VCF A paper published recently in Ostrich provides evidence of ...
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Thank you to all volunteers that have joined us in the International Bearded Vulture Observation Days!
The international bearded vulture observation days took place from the 10 – ...
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The Middle-East – a sink for vultures
The news coming from the Middle–East – particularly during these days – ...
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Nature´s editorial: Europe must act to stop livestock drugs from wiping out its vulture populations
http://www.nature.com/news/toxic-influence-1.16190?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews Thank you NATURE! EU, please ban vet diclofenac!
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Significant contributions to document the impact of the trade in vulture parts for traditional medicine in Africa published
Trade on wildlife products is a major driver of biodiversity loss worldwide. ...
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Project buseu – how vultures are helping recover an abandoned village
La Aventura del Saber. Proyecto Buseu Buseu project is a great initiative ...
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NATURE reports on diclofenac, other veterinary drugs and vultures
http://www.nature.com/news/poisoned-vulture-could-herald-european-bird-crisis-1.16161 The recently published evidence about the death of a griffon vulture ...
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New study shows that African bearded vulture populations have reduced genetic variability and have little interpopulation variability
A recent paper published in Ibis (link) providesnew data on the genetic variation within, evolutionary ...
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Ouf – still alive! Tizón the Egyptian vulture is already in Mali!
After an anxious waiting of several days for a signal from its ...
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VCF and Generalitat of Catalonia sign important agreement for the conservation of Bearded Vultures
The VCF will be signing today a collaboration agreement with the Departament ...
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New paper published with first reported case of a griffon vulture being killed by a veterinary drug in Spain
Photo VCF On the same day that a EU public consultation on ...
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VCF submits reasoned opinion for the public consultation on veterinary diclofenac
The Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) has been leading a campaign together with ...
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