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Five ways you can help vultures next Saturday on International Vulture Awareness Day

Although we at the Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) strive to help vultures ...
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From captivity to the wild: the reintroduction story of Bearded Vulture Pradines

The Grands Causses Regional Natural Park in France has a new inhabitant! ...
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The Bearded Vulture reintroduction project in Andalusia sees a record number of wild-hatched fledglings

It has been a brilliant year for the Bearded Vulture reintroduction project in ...
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International Vulture Awareness Day 2021 is two weeks away

Join us on Saturday, 4 September to celebrate the International Vulture Awareness ...
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Research Review: Study provides new insight into the vocal repertoire of Griffon Vultures

Did we underestimate the complexity of the vocal repertoire of Griffon Vultures? ...
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One of only two tagged Cinereous Vultures from the Douro returns home

In 2020, two Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) chicks hatched in the Douro ...
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2021 marks another successful Bearded Vulture release season in Andalusia

This year has once again been a great one for the Bearded ...
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Record number of Cinereous Vultures spotted for the Balkans outside the breeding colony of the Eastern Rhodopes

The Vultures Back to LIFE team counted a total of 20 Cinereous ...
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Can captive breeding prevent the extinction of a migratory vulture population?

Captive breeding programmes can prove critical in saving species under threat. Such ...
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The Vulture Conservation Foundation is hiring a Part-Time Financial Assistant

If you have experience in financial management, are passionate about wildlife conservation ...
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Getting ready to monitor the future movements of the first Cinereous Vulture chick that hatched in Bulgaria’s wild in nearly three decades!

Following many years of targeted and collaborative conservation actions, the Cinereous Vulture returned ...
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Running club fundraises to support our Bearded Vulture reintroduction efforts in Andalusia

The local Running Club ‘Alma Gaia Mountain Club’ organised a race in ...
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A Cinereous Vulture pair successfully nest on rocks instead of treetops in Mallorca

The Medi Ambient agents in Mallorca have made a surprising discovery — ...
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Griffon Vultures return to a historic colony in Greece after 30 years!

Optimistic news — a historic Griffon Vulture colony in Greece that has ...
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LIFE Rupis: Layman’s report and project films now available

The LIFE Rupis project took an integrated approach to the conservation of ...
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After exploring the Balkans for over two months, the ‘Italian’ Egyptian Vulture reached Hungary and Austria!

Diego keeps on wandering! After Diego returned to his spring-summer residence in ...
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Young Bearded Vulture Bavaria and Wally successfully take their first flight into the Bavarian Alps

For the first time in over 140, two young Bearded Vultures call ...
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Grands Causses welcomes one more Bearded Vulture as part of the LIFE GypConnect reintroduction project

One more captive-bred Bearded Vulture now lives in the Grands Causses Regional ...
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The spread of misinformation as a new challenge for vulture conservation

Condors and vultures (hereafter “vultures”) are threatened necrophagous bird species relying on ...
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Wildlife Crime Academy: using CSI and forensic science to solve wildlife crimes across 9 countries

Let’s be honest: Death plays a significant part in wildlife conservation. Conservationists ...
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