Read about the Annual Bearded Vulture Meeting 2021 and other vulture conservation news.
Vulture Conservation Foundation news bulletin
November 2021
Annual Bearded Vulture Meeting 2021 and Final LIFE GypConnect Seminar
Around 150 Bearded Vulture conservationists, researchers and enthusiasts participated in the Annual Bearded Vulture Meeting 2021 and the Final LIFE GypConnect Seminar. For those who did not manage to attend, we have published summaries highlighting the key insights from each presentation on our website:
We are already looking forward to next year's meeting! The provisional dates are set for 11 to 13 November 2022 at Parco Natura Viva in Italy.
Bearded Vultures started laying clutches
On 28 November 2021, a productive Bearded Vulture pair in Austria laid the first egg of the 2021/22 captive breeding season. Since then, several other pairs within our pan-European Bearded Vulture Captive Breeding Network have now followed suit.
Latest news from our
vulture conservation projects
The BalkanDetox LIFE project, led by us at the Vulture Conservation Foundation, aims to strengthen national capacities to fight wildlife poisoning and raise awareness about the problem across seven Balkan countries.
LIFE Safe for Vultures, led by the University of Sassari, is a new project acting as the first step to the restoration of the vulture guild in Sardinia.
Vultures Back to LIFE 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.
Recent movements of released captive-bred Bearded Vultures in Maestrazgo
The captive-bred Bearded Vultures released in Maestrazgo as part of our latest reintroduction project are doing well. According to their GPS movements, one bird from 2018 and two from 2019 have returned to Maestrazgo, while the two birds released this year started to explore the surroundings.
We here at the VCF follow the movements of several vultures as part of different projects. You can track the movements of all the European vulture species we tagged within our different projects and regions by visiting our online public maps.
Photo credits: Hansruedi Weyrich, Richard Faust Bearded Vulture Specialised Captive Breeding Centre in Austria, Alvaro Camiña and Vulture Conservation Foundation.
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