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Today it is the International Vulture Awareness Day, and VCF has a message – Ban killer drug diclofenac or Europe’s vultures may face extinction!
The VCF warns that today´s International Vulture Awareness Day could be one ...
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Spreading the word – vultures are beautiful, necessary and endangered! International Vulture Awareness Day, 5th September
Vultures play a vital ecological role in our ecosystems, yet they face ...
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Help spread awareness on vultures – share your vulture pictures with National Geographic!
As part of the International Vulture Awareness Day (5th September, see here), ...
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New paper discusses supplementary feeding programs for European vultures, and makes recommendations for the management of vulture feeding sites
Ideally, all scavenger species, including vultures, should survive based primarily on natural ...
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At least six black vultures found dead near waste treatment plant in central Spain
In the last days of July the conservation NGO “Colectivo Azálvaro” have ...
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First black vulture chick hatched in the wild in southern Portugal for more than 40 years ringed and tagged
On the 14th July the black vulture chick hatched from one of ...
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And it is born! Black vulture chick hatches in Southern Portugal, the first such occurrence for more than 40 years in the region
In the last few days one chick finally hatched from one of ...
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The problem of poisoning in the Balkans and its impact on vulture conservation debated at a workshop
The VCF has recently participated in a two-day workshop organized in Papingo ...
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The silent killer strikes again – this time in Portugal and with a big conservation impact
Four black vultures and one Egyptian vulture were found dead this weekend ...
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Eurasian black vultures from Spain arrived well in Verdon & Baronnies (France) and are already in the acclimatisation aviaries
The 6 black vultures (Aegypius monachus) that the VCF has transported this ...
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Vulture conservation in action! VCF is transporting this weekend black vultures from Spain to France
This weekend the Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) is transporting 7 black vultures ...
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Eurasian black vultures nesting again in southern Portugal after an absence of 40 years
Two pairs of black vultures are nesting in artificial platforms set up ...
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The silent killer strikes again – this time in Israel. Four griffon and two black vultures found poisoned in a rare case in the country
Poison is the biggest threat to vultures worldwide – that is why ...
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Italian experts and conservation managers discussed the pros and cons of feeding stations for scavenger bird species
Over 150 people from all over Italy participated in a conference on ...
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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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The Junta de Andalusia gives 13 Eurasian Black Vultures for the reintroduction projects and the captivity-breeding programme (EEP)
The regional government of Andalusia handed over this week 13 Eurasian black ...
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The silent killer strikes again – at least 5 cinereous vultures (Aegypius monachus) and 3 griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) poisoned in eastern Turkey
On the 16th January Yusuf Yilmaz from Igdir province, in Eastern Turkey, ...
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Record year for black vultures in Mallorca – 25 pairs and 16 young fledged. Species has recovered from almost extinction in the early 80s
The results of the monitoring of the black vulture population in Mallorca, ...
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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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