Blog posts tagged as Vulture Tagging

2022 Successes for Wildlife ACT’s Vulture Conservation Programme

One of our Vulture Conservation Programme’s goals is to continually improve the understanding of the fine-scale movement patterns of the various...

Why are Vultures so Endangered?

A major reason why vultures are so endangered is that they are specifically targeted for their body parts. These are used for traditional medicinal...

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...