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Vultures INDEED return! First successful breeding of griffon vulture in the Central Balkan Mountains for more than 70 years!
Hard work usually pays off – indeed, one of those joyful momentous ...
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The status of the griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) in Italy in 2014: population further increased to 135 breeding pairs
The current status of the 5 Eurasian griffon vulture populations in Italy ...
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Not quite the royal baby, but cute nonetheless – Baby griffon born in Israel from Cretan vultures
Pairgiven a second opportunity after failed rewilding in Cyprus A griffon hatched ...
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Two permanently wounded griffons travel from Portugal to France for captive breeding
Through VCF facilitation, two unrecoverable (permanently wounded) griffon vultures travelled recently from ...
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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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Prominent Serbian vulture researcher launches today book about griffon vultures
Bratislav Grubac is a researcher at the Serbian Institute for Nature Conservation, ...
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Another mass poisoning of vultures in Asia – at least 20 Himalayan griffon vultures dead in India
In recent years there have been increasing reports of widespread use of ...
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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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GYPAS project: 12 more griffon vultures released last week to restock the endangered population in Cyprus
On the 5th & 6 of February 12 griffon vultures have been ...
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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 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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Annual simultaneous survey of griffon vultures in Cyprus: 15 birds counted
On the 15th December 2014 fifteen volunteers and staff from BirdLife Cyprus ...
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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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Have you ever seen a pig flying? Or a griffon with a bell?
Well, well, Clive Muir, a long-time Spanish resident and the mentor of ...
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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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34 griffon vultures are on their way from Extremadura (Spain) to Bulgaria, to be released in the Stara Planina Mountains
The griffon vultures – mostly juveniles – are all birds that entered ...
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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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