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Decline of transhumance will negatively to impact vulture communities

An international team of scientists reveals in a new study that the abandonment of traditional livestock farming activities, such as transhumance, could be detrimental to scavenger communities. This activity has configured landscape across the world and has created ecosystems, which have benefited a great number of animal and plant species, including vultures. The research work has been carried out by scientists at the University of Granada, the Miguel Hernández University, the Doñana...

Scientific study reveals that vulture diet is shaped by culture

A scientific team found that vultures have different diet patterns depending on the place where they breed, regardless of the available resources.

This indicates that they have different “tastes” by cultural transmission among individuals of the same population. Until now, it was believed that vultures were opportunistic species that consumed any type of carrion without indiscriminately.

Griffon vultures can move over an area of up to 10,000 km2 in a year

A scientific team led by the Miguel Hernández University of Elche with the collaboration of the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has analysed the basic patterns of movements of several populations of griffon vultures in Spain. Their movements are influenced by individual sex, breeding region and other environmental factors.

Results show that the management of these species, which exploit very large areas, cannot be approached at the local level and requires the collaboration...

Tourism in protected areas could negatively affect scavenger's movements

A new study from CSIC, University of Seville and Miguel Hernández University shows that Griffon vultures breeding in a natural park tended to avoid the core touristic areas on those days with a greater influx of people.

A high number of tourists

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
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