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Bright Future for Black Vulture in Bulgaria (Vultures back to LIFE)
Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jul 15, 2022,
Background
The most serious problem for vultures in Bulgaria today is the critically low number of populations and their isolation. In spite of two decades of conservation efforts, the WWF Greece Dadia project showed that the number of breeding pairs is not increasing and remains around 20 pairs. Another threat is unsuitable livestock breeding practices r ...
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Restoration of connections between the Alpine and Pyrenean populations of bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) (LIFE GYPCONNECT)
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2021,
Background
The conservation status of the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is listed as vulnerable on the European IUCN Red List and endangered in France. Before vulture reintroductions started, the Alps represented a huge barrier separating the Pyreneo-Iberian populations and those of the Balkans. To bridge the distance between the populations of the ...
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Conservation of Black and Griffon vultures in the cross-border Rhodopes mountains (LIFE RE-Vultures)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2021,
Background
European black vultures (Aegypius monachus)and griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) are considered as umbrella species whose conservation will also substantially benefit other raptor species sharing the main diet of carrion as well as breeding and foraging habitats. These species are also an indicator of healthy, intact, natural habitats. The conserv ...
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Egyptian Vulture and Bonelliâs Eagle Conservation in Douro/Duero Canyon (LIFE Rupis)
Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jul 15, 2019,
Background
Douro Internacional e Vale do Ãgueda SPA and Arribes del Duero SPA form one of the main areas for Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), Bonelli´s eagle (Aquila fasciata) and red kite (Milvus milvus) in the Iberian Peninsula. For the Egyptian vulture, the local population represents 10% of the total population of the peninsula. For Portuga ...
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Reduction of the human threats affecting the Bearded Vulture (LIFE GypHelp)
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,
Background
The bearded vulture is one of the most threatened species in Europe and is, as such, rated âcritically endangeredâ by the IUCN. Reintroduced into the Alps in 1986, the species suffers from population fragmentation and resulting genetic isolation. In 2011, only 50 breeding pairs were left in France and 175 in Europe. Thanks to recent reintro ...
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Coordinated Efforts for International Species Recovery (EuroSAP)
Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,
...ion and update of six existing SAPs and EU management plans endorsed by the European Commission in the late 1990s and early 2000s (white-headed duck, velvet scoter, Dalmatian pelican, cinereous vulture, bearded vulture and European turtle-dove), and to develop two new plans for species of greatest urgency (Yelkouan shearwater and Monteiroâs storm petrel). The project will also develop a pilot gr ...
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