International workshop on supplementary feeding for griffon vultures – Alghero, Sardinia For more information on detailed program have a look here: https://www.lifesafeforvultures.eu/international-workshop-on-supplementary-feeding-for-griffon-vultures.html

We just read about a massive poisoning of >500 vultures on five species in Botswana, Chobe National Park area. The 537 dead vultures comprised 468 white-backed vultures, 28 hooded vultures, 17 white-headed vultures, 14 lappet-faced vultures and 10 Cape vultures. Please read mo

A short and nice documentary about a new world avian scavenger: The Californian Condor (Gymnogyps californianus).  

Lisa Feldkamp (follow her in twitter: https://twitter.com/@StayClasSci) just published an article on CoolGreenScience, where she summaries the vulture crisis. Have a read.  Link to the article: https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/06/06/poisoning-vultures-bite-disease-rabies

The Indian Health Ministry has now officially banned multi-dose vials of human diclophenac! A major breakthrough indeed, as it restricts diclophenac production to single-doses and thus bans illegal treatment of livestock! Read more here…. Major breakthrough in fight to save Asia

Our remaining bird Heidi is travelling the world! She visited Mozambique in August.    

Kerri Wolter and colleagues just published a short note about a Cape Vulture (Gyps coprotheres) that was released in Namibia in 2005 and now obviously returned to South Africa … Have a look at the paper here: Wolter K, Neser W, Diekmann M, Verdoorn G. (2014) South African Cape V

We will be capturing juvenile Capes again at Oribi in February 2015! We will at least apply the three transmitters of the dead birds, and hopefully more…