On 7-9 June 2023, the award ceremony was held for the students of the primary and secondary school of the ZSC/ZPS Area delle Gravine, in Puglia, who were involved in the educational course dedicated to the Egyptian vulture, which was activated with the LIFE Egyptian vulture project. The course, coordinated by the Puglia Region and ... Read more

On 15-16-17 March 2023, a monitoring visit of the LIFE Egyptian vulture project took place in the Canary Islands, which was attended by the beneficiaries’ staff, Dr Alberto Cozzi, project monitor, and Dr Simona Bacchereti, advisor of CINEA, the European Commission agency managing the LIFE programme. The visit was organised by the Government of the ... Read more

At the beginning of 2023, an information and awareness-raising campaign involving tourist facilities in the areas where the actions of the LIFE Egyptian vulture project are being developed was completed. Experienced operators visited the facility managers and provided them with information on the Egyptian vulture and the LIFE Egyptian vulture project. In addition, they distributed ... Read more

On 4 September 2022, the Egyptian vulture Diego was found dead under the pole of a medium-voltage power line in the Pollino National Park in Calabria. The autopsy report from the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno confirmed electrocution as the cause of death, but Diego’s fate was nevertheless sealed: chemical toxicological analyses ascertained that he ... Read more