Conservation Watch Environment Hope takes flight as birds set free The rehabilitation and release of three poisoned vultures is celebrated as threats to the species’ survival escalate, writes Will Western One swallow doesn’t make a summer, but the release of three critically endangered vultures really is reason to cheer, say conservationists. The African white-backed vultures had been nursed back to health after eating from a […] Written by rovingreporters July 6, 2020July 10, 2020
Conservation Watch Environment Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in Zululand Another vulture poisoning incident, discovered two days before Christmas in far northern KwaZulu-Natal, has sparked warnings that the region’s diminishing vulture populations could face extinction if belief-based use is not addressed, writes Fred Kockott Fifteen white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) and a young lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) have died after feeding on a poison-laced impala carcass […] Written by rovingreporters December 30, 2019December 9, 2020