Blog posts in Vulture Conservation
Hooded Vulture Pair on uMkhuze Game Reserve
Perhaps due to their odd appearance or their association from animation films as the “bringers of bad news”, vultures often inherit a bad...
Vulture Crisis = Human Crisis. Get Involved
Africa is experiencing a vulture crisis. The White-backed Vulture is one of eight African vulture species that is on the decline. Poisoning and...
Vultures and the Art of Decomposition, Flight & Disease-killing Digestion
Written by Rhiannon Gill The art of decomposition is a unique one and is a process vital for the environment to remain healthy. Carcasses need to...
Using GPS Units to Monitor our Remaining Vultures
At the end of January 2017, our monitoring team at the uMkhuze Section of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park had a special sighting of one of our tagged...
Vulture Numbers 2016: South Africa and Kwa-Zulu Natal
FACT: Vulture populations are in serious decline across the entire African continent, with some species threatened with local extinction in some...
The Fight to Save the Vultures of Southern Africa
On the morning of the vulture capture on Manyoni Private Game Reserve, clouds dotted the sky – providing us occasional respite from the searing...
Zululand Vulture Tagging 2015
Although successful, our October Zululand vulture tagging ended up being a rather average week in the end – with only 5 African White Backs and...
Vulture Nest Survey 2015 – Zululand Vulture Project
This time of year is the nesting period for tree nesting vultures and other raptors in KZN. In August 2015 we conducted a vulture nest survey...