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Some of the women behind our vulture conservation work

Franziska Lörcher: VCF ´s scientific and conservation coordinator “Vultures are pretty bad-ass ...
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The most recent newsletter of IUCN´s Vulture Specialist Group published

The IUCN Species Survival Commission’s Vulture Specialist Group (VSG) is dedicated to ...
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Here comes the next one – Egyptian vulture Faia is on her way north!

After Egyptian vulture Poiares reached the wintering grounds in Mali in late ...
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Egyptian vultures go into the classroom in the Douro!

The LIFE RUPIS project aims to implement actions to strengthen the populations ...
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More bad news from Africa – 87 vultures poisoned to death in Mozambique

Only one week ago we reported on the latest mass-poisoning of vultures ...
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Dispatches from the field: 3 pairs of bearded vultures incubating in Vanoise while breeding has been confirmed (at long last!) in the Écrins (Alps)

Bearded vultures became extinct in the Alps in the beginning of the ...
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New paper: Antibiotics found in carcasses left in vulture supplementary feeding sites in Portugal

 Antibiotics have been beneficial for human and animal health. However, an excessive ...
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Diary of the migration – the journey of the Egyptian vulture Douro

From the Sahel desert to the canyons of the Douro, it took ...
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Mourning bearded vulture Durzon

Two weeks ago, Léa Giraud, the coordinator of the LPO team in ...
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Korea peninsula – cinereous vultures know no borders too!

The cinereous vulture has an extremely large distribution range across Europe, Asia ...
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The African vulture crisis continues – yet another mass poisoning of vultures (and carnivores) in Tanzania

The Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP), approved recently in the conference ...
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Egyptian vulture Douro has now crossed the Atlas Mountains and is around Marrakesh – soon he will be in Gibraltar

Douro – an Egyptian vulture captured and tagged at the Escalhão supplementary ...
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15 Important facts about the use of poison in Portugal

The Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP), approved recently in the conference ...
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Cinereous vulture tagged and released back to the wild in Jordan – in images

We have recently written about the first ever cinereous vulture which was ...
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Somewhere in Oman, there is an Egyptian vulture looking for a name – will you help us choose one?

Since January, there is one more Egyptian vulture whose movements you can ...
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What are Egyptian vultures doing in Oman? – Research and conservation action supported by the VCF

A stronghold for several species of vultures, Oman holds an important resident ...
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Egyptian vulture Douro starts its migration to Europe!

Douro – an Egyptian vulture captured and tagged at the Escalhão supplementary ...
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Bearded vulture Roc Genèse is in Buseu!

Roc Genèse, the first wild bearded vulture nestling ever tagged in the ...
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When age does not matter – 48 years old bearded vulture is still breeding

Vultures are long lived birds, and in captivity some birds may reach ...
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Cinereous vulture flyway action plan featured in this month´s Quercus magazine

This month´s edition of the Spanish nature conservation magazine Quercus features an ...
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