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Rüppell's vultures pictured in Kenya’s Masai Mara — these endangered birds raise only one chick per year. Image by Thomas Fuhrmann via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Colony of world’s highest-flying bird under threat in Uganda

Ryan Truscott, Musinguzi Blanshe 29 Oct 2025
A rapid response to a poisoning event in Kruger National Park in May this year saved more than 80 vultures. Such activities are vitally important, say conservationists, but more action is needed to address drivers of poisoning and poaching.

Mass vulture poisonings expose need for cross-border action in Southern Africa

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2025
A white-backed vulture in Kruger National Park. This critically endangered species is often a victim of poisoning incidents.

Poisoning crisis could drive vulture extinction in South Africa’s Kruger region

Sean Mowbray 16 Sep 2025
Vultures feeding on carrion. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

As large scavengers decline, disease risk soars, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2025

Cape vulture conservation offers hope, but challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 14 May 2025
Hooded vulture, Gambia 2017. Image by Pete Richman via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In West Africa, hooded vultures vanish as abattoirs modernize

Ryan Truscott 24 Apr 2025

Kenya revives poisoning campaign to curb invasive Indian house crows

Gilbert Nakweya 6 Feb 2025
Two hooded vultures in the Gambia. Image by Roger Sanderson via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Hooded vultures in Ghana and South Africa on the brink, study says

Sean Mowbray 16 Sep 2024
A white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) flying over a city.

Time to highlight South Asia’s less-studied vultures: Interview with Krishna Bhusal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2024
A white-headed vulture, soaring wings outstretched against a clear blue sky. (Trigonoceps occipitalis) at Mole National Park, Ghana. Image by Nik Borrow via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Action plan to save West African vultures targets threat from belief-based use

Sean Mowbray 18 Jun 2024
A white-backed vulture. showing brown wings and lighter breast, dark grey face and beak against green foliage in Mole National Park, Ghana. Image courtesy of Nico Arcilla.

Endangered vulture species nesting in Ghana is rare good news about raptors

Sean Mowbray 2 Feb 2024
A wolverine. Image courtesy of MBarrueto via the Creative Commons, CC 2.0.

Let’s give the wary wolverine some space (commentary)

Gabe Schepens 12 Jan 2024
Vulture Nepal

Nests of hope: Nepal’s vulture colonies hold on amid new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Aug 2023
A Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis).

Bangladesh’s vultures still threatened by poison despite conservation actions

Abu Siddique 28 Apr 2023
An Iberian lynx.

Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2023
vulture Nepal

Nepal’s vultures, recovering from a poisoning crisis, fly into another

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Mar 2023

‘Grumpiest cat’ leaves its calling card on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2023
Two Egyptian vultures.

Proximity to humans both boon and bane for Egyptian vultures in Nepal’s Pokhara

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 Jan 2023
White-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) adult landing composite, Etosha National Park, Namibia. Photo credit: Charles J. Sharp

Cheetah reintroduction in Malawi brings vultures back to the skies

Ryan Truscott 25 Jul 2022
An American black vulture in Nepal.

Sighting of an American black vulture in Nepal causes a flutter

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Jul 2022
A hooded vulture

Scientists uncover widespread declines of raptors in Kenya

Caroline Chebet 17 May 2022
Different species of vultures congregated together.

Conservation win for Bangladesh as efforts to halt vulture decline pay off

Abu Siddique 12 May 2022
Hooded vultures eating a dog carcass in the Gambia. Image by Paul Walter via Wikicommons (CC BY-2.0)

As Guinea-Bissau records mass vulture deaths, poisoning is main suspect

Ed Holt 9 Mar 2020
Burning a poisoned white-backed vulture carcass. Image courtesy Wildlife ACT.

Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa

Fred Kockott 29 Dec 2019
Hooded vulture. Image courtesy John Davies/EWT

Lift-off for first African vulture safe zones

Fred Kockott, Tony Carnie 28 Nov 2019

Pumas engineer their environment, providing habitat for other species

John Cannon 17 Dec 2018

Death by hippo poop: Scientists solve a fish massacre in the Mara River

Shreya Dasgupta 30 May 2018

African vultures under the gun as lead ammunition takes a toll

Jim Tan 22 May 2018

Friend, not foe: Review highlights benefits of predators and scavengers

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2018

New study uncovers why vultures don’t get sick from eating rotten carcasses

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Oct 2015

Perched on the precipice: India’s vultures threatened by E.U. sale of killer drug

Esther Wullschleger Schättin 5 Nov 2014

U.S. proposes to list wolverine under Endangered Species Act

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2013

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