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On Kirma and commitment to a cause – how intensive care and a lot of expertise rehabilitated a severely injured bearded vulture back into breeding
The bearded vulture captive breeding season in now in full swing – ...
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End of an era – one of the most prolific bearded vultures in our captive breeding network died on the same day his last chick hatched.
Maybe it was just a coincidence, but one cannot escape thinking that ...
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Bearded Vulture monitoring report for the French Alps – Life GypHelp
In the framework of the Life Project “GypHelp”, the Vulture Conservation Foundation ...
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The VCF and prominent Spanish scientists alert to a new threat to Iberian vultures – the proposal to eliminate all by-products of hunted wild ungulates
The regional Agriculture Agency of Castilla-La Mancha (Consejería de Agricultura) has recently ...
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Vultures die of old age too – female bearded vulture left us at age 49!
The oldest female present in the bearded vulture captive breeding network (coordinated ...
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The mystery of the orange colour in bearded vultures. What benefits do birds get from bathing in iron oxid-rich mud?
Adult bearded vultures often have a deep orange-red tinge on their plumage, ...
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New papers on bearded vulture home ranges in the Pyrenees and Southern Africa
Two papers have been published recently with results from the monitoring of ...
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Good news from Algeria – bearded vultures seem to hang on in the country!
The last bulletin from the Theniet El Had National Park (Atlantica, see ...
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Taking care of precious eggs – the next generation of wild bearded vultures
Almost all of the pairs in the bearded vulture captive breeding network ...
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VCF´s new advisory service to the bearded vulture captive breeding network produces first results – several aviaries have been significantly improved!
In the last 18 months 14 zoos, animal parks and recovery centres ...
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Bearded vulture makes Xmas appearance in Madrid
An immature bearded vulture has been seen on the 21st December near ...
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Father Xmas brought some great presents – fist eggs laid in the bearded vulture captive breeding network!
This year, the race for first egg laid in the bearded vulture ...
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EMA says veterinary diclofenac does pose a risk to European vultures, and suggests a number of solutions, including a ban of the drug – what next?
(Photo Simon Littlejohn/VCF) The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published last weekend ...
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Scientific community suggest that weak environmental assessments of veterinary drugs undermine regulations and can cause a vulture ecological disaster
A few days before the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is due to ...
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On vultures, rotting food, and nasty germs – new research on the bacteria living on vultures
(c) Bruno Berthemy – European Griffon and Black Vulture feeding on a ...
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Vultures need you – please write to your MEPs about veterinary diclofenac
As the deadline for a final decision by the EU Commission on ...
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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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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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