Bad news for two of the four Egyptian vultures freed in Basilicata in May 2022. What happened after the release has, unfortunately, confirmed that poaching remains an important cause of death and that the impact against wind turbines is a threat that hangs over the species also in Italy, as is ascertained in other European ... Read more

On May 16, 2022, four young Egyptian vultures born in previous years at CERM Centro Rapaci Threatened  were released in Basilicata, in the Murgia Materana Park: Dina and Flora, born in 2020, and Pina and Sid, born in 2021. It was therefore a so-called “delayed release because it involved individuals of one to two years ... Read more

Nineteen years after the start of the release programme of captive-bred Egyptian vultures in Italy, there is finally evidence that one of the released individuals formed a pair and is raising a chick. The pair is composed of a wild-hatched male and Sara, a female born in 2015 at the CERM Endangered Raptors Centre, in ... Read more

In Fuerteventura and Lanzarote there are more and more power lines on which the Egyptian vultures can alight safely. Within the LIFE Egyptian vulture project EDistribución Redes Digitales carried out insulation interventions on 220 supports of the electrical power distribution lines. Electrocution, i.e. death by electrocution, has long been one of the main limiting factors of ... Read more