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[airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/image-04-WEB.jpg” alt=”image-04-WEB” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-24441″ ] Bearded Vulture breeding pair incubating their clutch at the Green Balkans Wildlife Rescue Centre With the Bearded Vulture breeding season well under way we thought we would look back on the 2018 breeding results from the Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network and […] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/vULTURE-dOG.jpg” alt=”vULTURE dOG” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-24140″ ] Anti-poisoning dog unit established on Portuguese side of the Douro canyon through LIFE Rupis Illegal poisoning is the single biggest threat to vultures not only in Europe but across the globe. Many of the conservation projects we are partners on are […] The final release of the 2018 bearded vulture reintroduction season happened on Sunday 17 June in Switzerland with the release of two bearded vultures from the Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network EEP (keep an eye out on news later this week for a full report). Running since 1978 the network which currently looks after 167 […] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Bearded-Vulture.jpg” alt=”Bearded Vulture” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-24060″ ] Collision with the energy infrastructure or the ski lifts has been identified as one important mortality cause for the bearded vulture in the Alps – over the last few years several bearded vultures died after colliding with cables. Hence, a major part […] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Dead-VulturesWeb.jpg” alt=”Dead-VulturesWeb” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23894″ ] Only one week ago we reported on the latest mass-poisoning of vultures in Africa, when 75 vultures and 6 lions were found poisoned in Tanzania. Barely 7 days later, and one day after the world marked the world wildlife […] Antibiotics have been beneficial for human and animal health. However, an excessive use in livestock and a deficient management of the carcasses that are deposited in supplementary feeding sites can lead to adverse effects in the scavengers that ingest them, as some antibiotics can have adverse impacts on vultures. […] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Poisoned-Vultures-web.jpg” alt=”Poisoned-Vultures-web” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23849″ ] The Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP), approved recently in the conference of the parties of the Convention for Migratory Species – a global strategic blueprint identifying priorities and actions to conserve 15 species of old world vultures – says it clearly: (illegal) poison with poisoned baits (often […] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Vulture-Map-web.jpg” alt=”Vulture-Map-web” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23842″ ] Douro – an Egyptian vulture captured and tagged at the Escalhão supplementary feeding sitelast June in the framework of the project LIFE Rupis , and that has spent the winter in the border between Mali and Mauritania, will cross into Europe in the […]
We have recently written about the first ever cinereous vulture which was tagged in Jordan – we now a nice video done by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature in Jordan about this (see above). […] Roc Genèse, the first wild bearded vulture nestling ever tagged in the French pre-Pyrenees, is now in Buseu, in Catalonia – where a local NGO is promoting wildlife watching and socio-economic development based on vulture watching (see http://buseu.es/en/ ). There is a vulture watching observatory in there, associated with a supplementary feeding station, that […] |
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