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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.
These studies have been led by the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, the University of Sevilla and the University Miguel Hernández of Elche with the collaboration of the University of Lisbon

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, Central and Southern Spain and Southern France, thanks to the traditional agro-grazing practices and rich wild ungulates populations.

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 concludes that vultures have higher stress and cell aging levels in northern areas, more anthropized and densely populated

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 gases. Despite the known toxicity of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac to this species and other Gyps vultures, in March 2013 the Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios (AEMPS) approved the use of two medicines containing diclofenac for veterinary use in horses, pigs...