Blog posts tagged as White-backed Vulture

Vulture Safe Zone Added to Thula Thula Private Game Reserve

Good News for Vultures! Southern Africa’s Vulture populations are facing an uncertain future. To stem the tide of losses, landscape-level...

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...

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...

Vultures Clean Up Ophathe Heritage Park

For International Vulture Awareness Day the Ophathe volunteers kept watch over a fresh zebra carcass and they were able to count nearly 90 vultures...

Vulture Poisoning Causing Serious Population Decline

Vulture nesting sites have been closely monitored and since 2001 the numbers have dropped substantially, almost 70% of breeding pairs have vanished....