Objectives and actions of the LIFE Egyptian vulture project were illustrated to the CUFA Anti-Poison Dog Units as part of an update and qualification meeting that brought them together in Tuscany in December 2019.   The Egyptian vulture is a very vulnerable species due to the presence of poisoned baits and morsels and for this ... Read more

Five of the eight Egyptian vulture that were released in Basilicata in the summer of 2019 are still monitored using the GPS / GSM dataloggers they are equipped with: three of them seem determined to spend the winter in Italy while two have reached Africa. The first Egyptian vulture to reach Africa was Leonardo, who ... Read more

The activities carried out in Italy as part of the LIFE Egyptian vulture project and the results achieved so far have been presented at two conferences held in the autumn of 2019. In the Symposium “Vultures in Italy, status, threats and conservation”, organized as part of the XX Italian Ornithology Conference which took place in ... Read more

From April 2019, the date on which the Anti-Poison Dog Unit (UCA) created as part of the LIFE Egyptian vulture project started working, 28 inspections were carried out on the islands of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. The largest number of inspections were carried out on the island of Lanzarote (22) while only 6 inspections were carried ... Read more