Author Archives: Elisabeth Portheine

Death of four female Bearded Vulture blocks the reintroduction of the species in Andalusia.

By Elisabeth Portheine | Published: 10 December 2009 23:59
  The fact that the four Bearded Vultures who died this year -shot down, poisoned and two through natural causes- were females will set back the mating of the five specimens still alive -all males- for more than five years. The BeardedVulture, threatened by extinction in Spain, of which little more than two hundred specimens [...]
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The Principality of Asturia extends its support of the Bearded Vulture project in the Picos de Europa to 2013.

By Elisabeth Portheine | Published: 10 December 2009 23:46
The Principality of Asturia extends its support of the Bearded Vulture project to 2013. The FCQ will seek European financing to develop the second phase of its recuperation in the Picos de Europa.   The Principality again renews its commitment to the project of the Bearded Vulture recuperation in the Picos de Europa. It will be [...]
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