At the end of February 2019, the 2020 monitoring campaign of the Egyptian vulture population in the Canary Islands began, as part of action D.1 of the LIFE Egyptian vulture project. This monitoring is carried out by the working group of the Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC headed by Dr. José Antonio Donázar, coordinated from Directorate ... Read more

E-Distribución power lines are being modified to avoid the risk of electrocution for the “Guirre canario”, the subspecies of Egyptian vulture that lives in the two islands of the Spanish Archipelago. Of the 90 power poles subject to the isolation interventions, 22 are located in Lanzarote while 68 are located in Fuerteventura, the island that ... Read more

Paloma returns to CERM while Mary is transferred to the Vico (VT) facility. The exchange took place on February 26, 2020 in attempt to increase the number of Egyptian Vulture couples that can produce juveniles to be released in the wild. The collaboration between the CERM (Threatened Birds of Pray Center) and the Vico’sLake Natural ... Read more

As every year, the first phase of the breeding season of the Egyptian vultures hosted at CERM is the formation of couples: a delicate and complex choice that is made on the basis of the “history” of each specimen. Unfortunately, in fact, it happens very rarely that a male and a female placed in the ... Read more