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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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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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