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Research review: Understanding the links between landscape anthropization and stress in Griffon Vultures

How does landscape anthropization affect vulture populations? A recently published research article investigated this ...
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Bearded Vultures “Bavaria” and “Wally” successfully released in the Berchtesgaden National Park in Germany

The 10th of June will be a milestone in German nature conservation ...
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Why are we releasing Bearded Vultures in Germany for the first time ever tomorrow?

An important milestone will take place tomorrow in the heart of the ...
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Vultures: allies in the ecosystem, with added financial benefits

Supporting vulture recovery, so they can act as nature’s ‘clean-up crew’, is ...
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Cinereous Vulture illegally poisoned in Bulgaria less than one month following her reintroduction into the wild

Since her release in mid-May 2021, the Cinereous Vulture ‘Blacky Skrill’ undertook ...
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The first Bearded Vultures were reintroduced in the Swiss Alps 30 years ago today

30 years ago today, on 5 June 1991, the first Bearded Vultures ...
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Seven young Griffon Vultures of different backgrounds successfully freed into Croatia’s wild

After spending some time in a rescue centre, a total of seven ...
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Necropsy results shed light on the first Bearded Vulture fatality caused by wind turbine collision in Europe

For the first time in Europe, a Bearded Vulture lost its life due ...
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The M7 Partnership is hiring a part-time Fundraising Consultant

The leading conservation organisations working on human-induced mortality of birds in the ...
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Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains welcomed many Griffon Vulture chicks this year again

Years of conservation efforts in the Rhodopes Mountains in Bulgaria has resulted ...
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A limited-edition Bearded Vulture themed water bottle by Quechua supports the species’ conservation

With their limited-edition Bearded Vulture themed water bottle, the Decathlon’s hiking brand ...
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Releasing a young captive-bred Bearded Vulture in Vercors in 2021 © Alain Herrault/ LIFE GypConnect project

Two more captive-bred Bearded Vultures released in Vercors as part of our reintroduction project

Vercors welcomed two new residents — two young Bearded Vultures coming from ...
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The BalkanDetox LIFE Project Team Finally Met in Person: 1st NEEMO Monitor Visit and 2nd Partnership Meeting

The Project Team of the BalkanDetox LIFE project welcomed the opportunity to ...
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Corsica welcomes two more captive-bred Bearded Vultures to restock the wild population

Corsica is home to one of the last two European Bearded Vulture ...
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Late hatching of Bearded Vulture baby brings this captive breeding season to a close

The last Bearded Vulture chick of the 2020/21 captive-breeding season hatched quite ...
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First in Europe: reintroduced Bearded Vulture that wandered in the Netherlands killed by wind farm

It was bound to happen, and it did so this morning: the young ...
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LIFE Safe for Vultures: new project reinforces Griffon Vulture population in Sardinia

After the success of LIFE Under Griffon Wings, the LIFE Safe for Vultures ...
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Discovery of Griffon Vulture pair nesting on a tree — first record in Portugal

It was during a census in the Tejo Internacional Natural Park in ...
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Investigation in the Canary Islands reveals the threat of electrocution to birds like the endangered Egyptian Vulture

Environmental Agents across the Canary Islands (Agentes de Medio Ambiente de Canarias) ...
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BREAKING NEWS: Cinereous Vultures are breeding again in Bulgaria’s wild years after their extinction

A reintroduced Cinereous Vulture pair successfully hatched a chick in Bulgaria’s wild! ...
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