{"id":5780,"date":"2018-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4vultures.org\/blog\/who-are-the-vcf\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:00:00","slug":"who-are-the-vcf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4vultures.org\/pt\/blog\/who-are-the-vcf\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Vulture Conservation Foundation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through our work we aim for the four species of European vultures to have self-sustaining and healthy populations, with a good conservation status and occupying most of its former range. These populations will be supported by good quality habitats and valued by people across Europe.<\/p>\n

Who are we?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) is an international non-governmental organisation made up of a team of conservationists and scientists<\/a> who are dedicated to protecting and supporting the recovery of the four species of European vultures, the bearded<\/a>, griffon<\/a>, cinereous<\/a> e Egyptian<\/a> vultures. Here are just some of the staff working at the VCF:<\/p>\n\n

Reintroducing the bearded vulture to the Alps<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last bearded vulture in the Alps was shot in 1913 and in the late 1970s, led by the Frankfurt Zoological Society and funded by WWF, scientists developed a plan to release captive-bred chicks into the wild and reintroduce the species to the region. The first reintroduction took place in 1986 in the Austrian Hohe Tauern National Park. In the years that followed, the reintroduction project was extended gradually over the whole of the Alps. In 1997, some 80 years after the disappearance of the species, and 11 years after the first reintroduction, a wild-hatched chick flew for the first time in Haute-Savoie. Now there are 50+ breeding pairs, and the population is growing exponentially. It is one of the most successful wildlife reintroduction programmes in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bearded vulture in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1992 the Foundation for the Conservation of Bearded Vultures was founded by the president of Frankfurt Zoological Society, Richard Faust, uniting a network of vulture experts and zoos with the aim to establish a programme for breeding and reintroduction of Bearded vultures in the Alpine region (Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today the Vulture Conservation Foundation is the successor of the Foundation for the Conservation of Bearded Vultures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our work<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vulture Conservation Foundation carries on the work of the the Foundation for the Conservation of Bearded Vultures by initiating, facilitating and supporting conservation actions for the bearded vulture as well as the cinereous, Egyptian and griffon vultures in Europe. We are involved in several Europe-wide large scale conservation projects utilising our expertise and experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n