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| Subject | May news from the Vulture Conservation Foundation |
| Date | June 5, 2020 11:33 AM |
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** Vulture Conservation Foundation news bulletin
May 2020
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** Happy World Environment Day
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Today it is World Environment Day and the theme this year is biodiversity. We are currently facing a severe crisis when it comes to biodiversity — the mass extinction of fauna and flora. We depend on biodiversity and nature in ways that we cannot always comprehend or appreciate, but our interconnectivity was truly demonstrated with the COVID-19 crisis. This year, with the pandemic slowing down entire economies and societies, the day when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what earth can generate was pushed back one month — Earth Overshoot Day falls on 22 August 2020. This outcome shows that if we want a future where nature and wildlife thrives, critical change needs to happen. To achieve a more sustainable planet, we need to change — in the way economies and societies function and the way we behave as citizens and consumers. A healthy planet directly impacts our human health. Not only that, but biodiversity loss and nature destruction indirectly affect our
livelihoods, income, and in some cases, can cause political conflict.
What is essential now is that we fundamentally rethink our relationship with nature and how our everyday actions can have a positive or negative impact on the environment.
For World Environment Day, we also want to shed light on the importance of vultures. As nature's cleanup crew, they provide critical ecosystem services that benefit habitats, wildlife, people and the environment as a whole.
How do vultures contribute to our environment? ([link removed])
** Bearded Vulture releases across the Alps, France and Spain
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[link removed]
It's that time of the year again when we release captive-bred Bearded Vulture chicks into the wild to reintroduce or reinforce the wild populations of the species! These efforts started in the 70s, to bring Bearded Vultures back to the Alps following their extinction in the region. Together with our partners, we successfully reintroduced the species to this mountain chain, in one of the most celebrated wildlife comeback stories! Today, we have reintroduction projects in several regions across the Alps, France and Spain. This year, a total of 25 Bearded Vulture chicks are alive and healthy ([link removed]) within the Vulture Conservation Foundation's (VCF) Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network (EEP) that breed the species in captivity for conservation purposes. Some of the birds that hatched will remain in captivity to address the sex-ratio imbalances and also to secure important bloodlines in the captive
stock. The VCF and its partners will release at least 20 young Bearded Vultures into the wild across six regions in Spain, France and the Alps to boost the local populations of the species. So far, we released five birds in Andalusia, two in Baronnies and two in Vercors (French Pre-Alps). More releases will take place in June and July in Switzerland, the Grands Causses, Maestrazgo and Andalusia.
Two Bearded Vulture siblings kick off the 2020 release season in Andalusia ([link removed])
Two captive-bred Bearded Vultures from Austrian and Czech zoos released in Baronnies ([link removed])
Two young captive-bred Bearded Vultures released in the Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors in the French pre-Alps ([link removed])
You can stay tuned with the releases by tracking #BeardedVultureReleaseSeason on Facebook ([link removed]) , Twitter ([link removed]) , LinkedIn ([link removed]) and Instagram ([link removed]) !
** Cinereous Vulture releases in Bulgaria
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[link removed]
This year, the historic Vultures Back To LIFE ([link removed]) is reintroducing Cinereous Vultures in a new release site in Bulgaria! In mid-May, the project team released five Cinereous Vultures in the Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park for the first time in this region. The five birds spent the last seven months at the acclimatization aviary of the Nature Park. Ahead of their release, the team equipped the birds with GPS transmitters, which gather insightful information about the birds and their movements and helps inform more accurate conservation measures.
Vultures back to LIFE aims to reintroduce the Cinereous Vulture to Bulgaria and establish a nesting population of the species. These conservation efforts are significant, as there is only one small breeding colony in Greece ([link removed]) , remaining across the entire Balkan Penninsula, and this project will help boost the status of the species in the region. Another goal of the project is to restore the connections between the sub-populations of this species in Greece, Crimea, the Alps and the Iberian Peninsula.
The first Cinereous Vultures releases at Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park in Bulgaria ([link removed])
** Latest news about Europe's four vulture species
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** Egyptian Vulture
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[link removed]
** Over 900 migratory Egyptian Vultures observed in Turkey during one month ([link removed])
Will Egyptian Vultures breed in Sardinia again? ([link removed])
Watch two newly hatched Egyptian Vulture siblings in the wild in Israel ([link removed])
Electrocuted in Turkey: Vultures and other soaring birds under threat ([link removed])
How are Egyptian Vultures perceived? ([link removed])
Introducing a schematic sampling protocol for raptor biomonitoring to harmonize procedures across Europe ([link removed])
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** Bearded Vulture
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[link removed]
** Birdski: mitigating threats in ski areas to protect Bearded Vultures in the French Alps ([link removed])
Research review: New study estimates the Bearded Vulture population in the Pyrenees at around 1,000 individuals ([link removed])
Two Bearded Vulture siblings kick off the 2020 release season in Andalusia ([link removed])
Food shortage will not be a problem this summer for our Bearded Vulture breeding centres ([link removed])
How many Bearded Vultures hatched this breeding season in captivity? ([link removed])
Bearded Vulture vagrancy: leaving the mountains to explore the North of France ([link removed])
Watch: Guadalentín — the centre that breeds the most Bearded Vultures ([link removed])
Electrocuted in Turkey: Vultures and other soaring birds under threat ([link removed])
A Bearded Vulture cycling jersey combines conservation and sustainability! ([link removed])
Introducing a schematic sampling protocol for raptor biomonitoring to harmonize procedures across Europe ([link removed])
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** Griffon Vulture
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[link removed]
** Electrocuted in Turkey: Vultures and other soaring birds under threat ([link removed])
Introducing a schematic sampling protocol for raptor biomonitoring to harmonize procedures across Europe ([link removed])
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** Cinereous Vulture
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[link removed]
** The only remaining Cinereous Vulture breeding colony in the Balkans ([link removed])
Rehabilitating electrocuted vultures is not an easy task ([link removed])
Electrocuted in Turkey: Vultures and other soaring birds under threat ([link removed])
Cinereous Vultures are breeding again in the Iberian System after more than half a century since their extinction ([link removed])
Watch how Cinereous Vultures utilize surrounding landscape for energy efficient soaring flight ([link removed])
Introducing a schematic sampling protocol for raptor biomonitoring to harmonize procedures across Europe ([link removed])
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** Latest news from our vulture conservation projects
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Vultures Back to LIFE ([link removed]) led by Green Balkans and the Fund for Wild Flora and Fauna, aims to reintroduce the Cinereous Vulture back to Bulgaria since it was declared extinct in the 1980s.
Latest news
Watch: Griffon Vulture dad feeding his one-month-old chick at the Green Balkans' Centre ([link removed])
From Bulgaria to Ukraine back to Bulgaria and Ukraine again in 30 days — the travels of Cinereous Vulture Sliven ([link removed])
The reintroduced Cinereous Vulture Sliven met a tragic end in Kharkiv, Ukraine ([link removed])
The first Cinereous Vultures releases at Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park in Bulgaria ([link removed])
Poacher shot and killed reintroduced Cinereous Vulture Ultron in Bulgaria ([link removed])
[link removed]
The LIFE Re-Vultures ([link removed]) project, led by Rewilding Europe, aims to support the recovery of Cinereous and Griffon Vulture populations in the cross border Rhodope Mountain region.
Latest news
Many chicks hatched this year again in Bulgaria's only indigenous Griffon Vulture population ([link removed])
[link removed]
L ([link removed]) IFE GypConnect ([link removed]) led by LPO and co-funded by the MAVA Foundation aims to create a breeding population in France's Massif Central and Department of the Drôme to connect the Alpine and Pyrenean populations of Bearded Vultures.
Latest news
Two captive-bred Bearded Vultures from Austrian and Czech zoos released in Baronnies ([link removed])
Two young captive-bred Bearded Vultures released in the Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors in the French pre-Alps ([link removed])
** Sign the Petition to #StopTheKillings of vultures
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Guinea Bissau has lost more than 2000 Critically Endangered vultures in recent months due to deliberate poisoning, in the world's largest incident of vulture deaths to date. This mass poisoning incident in Guinea Bissau has decimated 5% of the country's vulture population. Vultures in Africa are on the brink of extinction, with populations declining by up to 97% across the continent in the last 50 years. Urgent action is necessary to prevent mass vulture mortality in the future and preserve the species from going extinct. We call on the Guinea Bissau Government, Ecowas Cedeao and the AfricancUnion Commission to take urgent action and adress this situation.
Join the call by signing the petition to #StopTheKillings of vultures ([link removed])
** Bearded Vulture Cycling Jersey
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Imagine, cycling in the Alps or the Pyrenees, with a Bearded Vulture soaring overhead and another one on your back. Of course, not in the literal sense for the latter, but rather as a fantastic design on a cycling jersey! A summer edition, sustainable and high-performance cycling jersey, with a Bearded Vulture theme, is available for pre-order at VeloElan. Half of the profits from this jersey will be donated to the Vulture Conservation Foundation. Also, VCF friends get a 15% discount by using the code: VultureFriends!
A Bearded Vulture cycling jersey combines conservation and sustainability! ([link removed])
Pre-order the jersey ([link removed])
** Follow vultures online
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Monitoring vultures with GPS tags allows us to understand their behaviour and track their movements, which helps inform targeted conservation actions. You can track the movements of all of Europe's vultures species we tagged within our different projects and regions by visiting our online public maps ([link removed]) .
Bearded Vulture online maps ([link removed])
Cinereous Vulture online maps ([link removed])
Egyptian Vulture online maps ([link removed])
Griffon Vulture online maps ([link removed])
** Watch our latest video
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Watch: Guadalentín — the centre that breeds the most Bearded Vultures
Photo credits: Bruno Berthemy, Hristo Peshev/FWFF, Pascal Orabi and Pilar Oliva.
Follow us on social media and keep up to date with the latest news from the Vulture Conservation Foundation
[link removed] Follow on Facebook ([link removed])
[link removed] Follow on Instagram ([link removed])
[link removed] Follow on Twitter ([link removed])
[link removed] Follow on LinkedIn ([link removed])
[link removed] Subscribe on YouTube ([link removed])
[link removed] Visit our Website ([link removed])
If you have any news you would like to share please contact Eleni Karatzia (mailto:[email protected]) , Events, Outreach and Communications Officer.
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** Vulture Conservation Foundation news bulletin
May 2020
------------------------------------------------------------
** Happy World Environment Day
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Today it is World Environment Day and the theme this year is biodiversity. We are currently facing a severe crisis when it comes to biodiversity — the mass extinction of fauna and flora. We depend on biodiversity and nature in ways that we cannot always comprehend or appreciate, but our interconnectivity was truly demonstrated with the COVID-19 crisis. This year, with the pandemic slowing down entire economies and societies, the day when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what earth can generate was pushed back one month — Earth Overshoot Day falls on 22 August 2020. This outcome shows that if we want a future where nature and wildlife thrives, critical change needs to happen. To achieve a more sustainable planet, we need to change — in the way economies and societies function and the way we behave as citizens and consumers. A healthy planet directly impacts our human health. Not only that, but biodiversity loss and nature destruction indirectly affect our
livelihoods, income, and in some cases, can cause political conflict.
What is essential now is that we fundamentally rethink our relationship with nature and how our everyday actions can have a positive or negative impact on the environment.
For World Environment Day, we also want to shed light on the importance of vultures. As nature's cleanup crew, they provide critical ecosystem services that benefit habitats, wildlife, people and the environment as a whole.
How do vultures contribute to our environment? ([link removed])
** Bearded Vulture releases across the Alps, France and Spain
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
It's that time of the year again when we release captive-bred Bearded Vulture chicks into the wild to reintroduce or reinforce the wild populations of the species! These efforts started in the 70s, to bring Bearded Vultures back to the Alps following their extinction in the region. Together with our partners, we successfully reintroduced the species to this mountain chain, in one of the most celebrated wildlife comeback stories! Today, we have reintroduction projects in several regions across the Alps, France and Spain. This year, a total of 25 Bearded Vulture chicks are alive and healthy ([link removed]) within the Vulture Conservation Foundation's (VCF) Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network (EEP) that breed the species in captivity for conservation purposes. Some of the birds that hatched will remain in captivity to address the sex-ratio imbalances and also to secure important bloodlines in the captive
stock. The VCF and its partners will release at least 20 young Bearded Vultures into the wild across six regions in Spain, France and the Alps to boost the local populations of the species. So far, we released five birds in Andalusia, two in Baronnies and two in Vercors (French Pre-Alps). More releases will take place in June and July in Switzerland, the Grands Causses, Maestrazgo and Andalusia.
Two Bearded Vulture siblings kick off the 2020 release season in Andalusia ([link removed])
Two captive-bred Bearded Vultures from Austrian and Czech zoos released in Baronnies ([link removed])
Two young captive-bred Bearded Vultures released in the Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors in the French pre-Alps ([link removed])
You can stay tuned with the releases by tracking #BeardedVultureReleaseSeason on Facebook ([link removed]) , Twitter ([link removed]) , LinkedIn ([link removed]) and Instagram ([link removed]) !
** Cinereous Vulture releases in Bulgaria
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
This year, the historic Vultures Back To LIFE ([link removed]) is reintroducing Cinereous Vultures in a new release site in Bulgaria! In mid-May, the project team released five Cinereous Vultures in the Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park for the first time in this region. The five birds spent the last seven months at the acclimatization aviary of the Nature Park. Ahead of their release, the team equipped the birds with GPS transmitters, which gather insightful information about the birds and their movements and helps inform more accurate conservation measures.
Vultures back to LIFE aims to reintroduce the Cinereous Vulture to Bulgaria and establish a nesting population of the species. These conservation efforts are significant, as there is only one small breeding colony in Greece ([link removed]) , remaining across the entire Balkan Penninsula, and this project will help boost the status of the species in the region. Another goal of the project is to restore the connections between the sub-populations of this species in Greece, Crimea, the Alps and the Iberian Peninsula.
The first Cinereous Vultures releases at Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park in Bulgaria ([link removed])
** Latest news about Europe's four vulture species
------------------------------------------------------------
** Egyptian Vulture
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
** Over 900 migratory Egyptian Vultures observed in Turkey during one month ([link removed])
Will Egyptian Vultures breed in Sardinia again? ([link removed])
Watch two newly hatched Egyptian Vulture siblings in the wild in Israel ([link removed])
Electrocuted in Turkey: Vultures and other soaring birds under threat ([link removed])
How are Egyptian Vultures perceived? ([link removed])
Introducing a schematic sampling protocol for raptor biomonitoring to harmonize procedures across Europe ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
** Bearded Vulture
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
** Birdski: mitigating threats in ski areas to protect Bearded Vultures in the French Alps ([link removed])
Research review: New study estimates the Bearded Vulture population in the Pyrenees at around 1,000 individuals ([link removed])
Two Bearded Vulture siblings kick off the 2020 release season in Andalusia ([link removed])
Food shortage will not be a problem this summer for our Bearded Vulture breeding centres ([link removed])
How many Bearded Vultures hatched this breeding season in captivity? ([link removed])
Bearded Vulture vagrancy: leaving the mountains to explore the North of France ([link removed])
Watch: Guadalentín — the centre that breeds the most Bearded Vultures ([link removed])
Electrocuted in Turkey: Vultures and other soaring birds under threat ([link removed])
A Bearded Vulture cycling jersey combines conservation and sustainability! ([link removed])
Introducing a schematic sampling protocol for raptor biomonitoring to harmonize procedures across Europe ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
** Griffon Vulture
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
** Electrocuted in Turkey: Vultures and other soaring birds under threat ([link removed])
Introducing a schematic sampling protocol for raptor biomonitoring to harmonize procedures across Europe ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
** Cinereous Vulture
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
** The only remaining Cinereous Vulture breeding colony in the Balkans ([link removed])
Rehabilitating electrocuted vultures is not an easy task ([link removed])
Electrocuted in Turkey: Vultures and other soaring birds under threat ([link removed])
Cinereous Vultures are breeding again in the Iberian System after more than half a century since their extinction ([link removed])
Watch how Cinereous Vultures utilize surrounding landscape for energy efficient soaring flight ([link removed])
Introducing a schematic sampling protocol for raptor biomonitoring to harmonize procedures across Europe ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
** Latest news from our vulture conservation projects
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Vultures Back to LIFE ([link removed]) led by Green Balkans and the Fund for Wild Flora and Fauna, aims to reintroduce the Cinereous Vulture back to Bulgaria since it was declared extinct in the 1980s.
Latest news
Watch: Griffon Vulture dad feeding his one-month-old chick at the Green Balkans' Centre ([link removed])
From Bulgaria to Ukraine back to Bulgaria and Ukraine again in 30 days — the travels of Cinereous Vulture Sliven ([link removed])
The reintroduced Cinereous Vulture Sliven met a tragic end in Kharkiv, Ukraine ([link removed])
The first Cinereous Vultures releases at Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park in Bulgaria ([link removed])
Poacher shot and killed reintroduced Cinereous Vulture Ultron in Bulgaria ([link removed])
[link removed]
The LIFE Re-Vultures ([link removed]) project, led by Rewilding Europe, aims to support the recovery of Cinereous and Griffon Vulture populations in the cross border Rhodope Mountain region.
Latest news
Many chicks hatched this year again in Bulgaria's only indigenous Griffon Vulture population ([link removed])
[link removed]
L ([link removed]) IFE GypConnect ([link removed]) led by LPO and co-funded by the MAVA Foundation aims to create a breeding population in France's Massif Central and Department of the Drôme to connect the Alpine and Pyrenean populations of Bearded Vultures.
Latest news
Two captive-bred Bearded Vultures from Austrian and Czech zoos released in Baronnies ([link removed])
Two young captive-bred Bearded Vultures released in the Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors in the French pre-Alps ([link removed])
** Sign the Petition to #StopTheKillings of vultures
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Guinea Bissau has lost more than 2000 Critically Endangered vultures in recent months due to deliberate poisoning, in the world's largest incident of vulture deaths to date. This mass poisoning incident in Guinea Bissau has decimated 5% of the country's vulture population. Vultures in Africa are on the brink of extinction, with populations declining by up to 97% across the continent in the last 50 years. Urgent action is necessary to prevent mass vulture mortality in the future and preserve the species from going extinct. We call on the Guinea Bissau Government, Ecowas Cedeao and the AfricancUnion Commission to take urgent action and adress this situation.
Join the call by signing the petition to #StopTheKillings of vultures ([link removed])
** Bearded Vulture Cycling Jersey
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Imagine, cycling in the Alps or the Pyrenees, with a Bearded Vulture soaring overhead and another one on your back. Of course, not in the literal sense for the latter, but rather as a fantastic design on a cycling jersey! A summer edition, sustainable and high-performance cycling jersey, with a Bearded Vulture theme, is available for pre-order at VeloElan. Half of the profits from this jersey will be donated to the Vulture Conservation Foundation. Also, VCF friends get a 15% discount by using the code: VultureFriends!
A Bearded Vulture cycling jersey combines conservation and sustainability! ([link removed])
Pre-order the jersey ([link removed])
** Follow vultures online
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Monitoring vultures with GPS tags allows us to understand their behaviour and track their movements, which helps inform targeted conservation actions. You can track the movements of all of Europe's vultures species we tagged within our different projects and regions by visiting our online public maps ([link removed]) .
Bearded Vulture online maps ([link removed])
Cinereous Vulture online maps ([link removed])
Egyptian Vulture online maps ([link removed])
Griffon Vulture online maps ([link removed])
** Watch our latest video
------------------------------------------------------------
[link removed]
Watch: Guadalentín — the centre that breeds the most Bearded Vultures
Photo credits: Bruno Berthemy, Hristo Peshev/FWFF, Pascal Orabi and Pilar Oliva.
Follow us on social media and keep up to date with the latest news from the Vulture Conservation Foundation
[link removed] Follow on Facebook ([link removed])
[link removed] Follow on Instagram ([link removed])
[link removed] Follow on Twitter ([link removed])
[link removed] Follow on LinkedIn ([link removed])
[link removed] Subscribe on YouTube ([link removed])
[link removed] Visit our Website ([link removed])
If you have any news you would like to share please contact Eleni Karatzia (mailto:[email protected]) , Events, Outreach and Communications Officer.
============================================================
Copyright © 2020 Vulture Conservation Foundation, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email as you are partner or friend of the Vulture Conservation Foundation.
Our mailing address is:
Vulture Conservation Foundation
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Zürich 8003
Switzerland
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