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Current sanitarian regulations are not enough for avian scavengers' conservation
A scientific team has studied how the use of human-origin food resources, such as landfills and intensive livestock farms, by Eurasian griffon vultures can negatively impact their conservation. ...
Apex scavengers from different European populations converge at threatened savannah landscapes
An international scientific team found that “dehesas”, savannah-like systems from the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, attract Eurasian griffon vultures from distant populations from Northern,...
Avian scavengers living in anthropized landscapes and dense populations have chronic stress and accelerated cell aging
A study led by the Doñana Biological Estation (CSIC) has compared the health of two populations of griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) from two populations of the Iberian Peninsula. The research team...
Potential threat to Eurasian griffon vultures in Spain from veterinary use of the drug diclofenac
Spain holds > 95% of the European breeding population of the Eurasian griffon vulture. Vultures provide important ecosystem services in carcass removal and influence emissions of greenhouse...