Central Asian Vultures at Birdfair
In July I had the great joy of being able to talk about the Central Asian Vultures Project at this year’s Global Birdfair. Before joining the Hawk Conservancy Trust, I wasn’t particularly familiar with the…
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Happy International Vulture Awareness Day 2025!
In honour of International Vulture Awareness Day, which falls yearly on the first Saturday in September, and this year was 6 September, we created a video where some of our team talked about the importance…
International Vulture Awareness Day (IVAD) – 7th September
As part of the International Vulture Awareness Day (IVAD) the The Central Asian Vultures Project has been promoting the vultures of Central Asia on is Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CentralAsianVultures Central Asian Vultures project is dedicated to…
Presentation at the EUROPEAN VULTURE CONFERENCE, Nov 2023.
Dr Vladmir Dobrev attended the Presentation at the EUROPEAN VULTURE CONFERENCE between 14-17 November 2023. https://4vultures.org/european-vulture-conference/ This event was a large gathering for conservationists and scientists to report their results and network. Vladimir made presentations…
Ubuntu Conservation Magazine Story
Ubuntu, an online magazine that publishes conservation stories has written an article about the Central Asian Vulture project in their spring issue. We’d like to thank Ubuntu for raising awareness of the program. You can…
Nature’s a Hoot Podcast
Field team member Dr Vladimir Dobrev was interviewed recently on the Hawk Conservancy Trust’s Nature’s a Hoot Podcast. In this episode, he talks to Deputy Head of Living Collection Tom Morath from the Trust all…
Presenting the Latest Findings in our Research
Our field team member Dr Vladimir Dobrev recently presented his work at the Hawk Conservancy Trust in the UK for their International Vulture Programme Conference. This programme supports research and conservation projects for vultures across…
Uzbekistan might be the stronghold of the Egyptian vulture population in Central Asia
The field expedition in Uzbekistan, between the end of July and beginning of August this year, revealed several new large Egyptian vulture congregation sites in Uzbekistan suggesting that the southern part of the country could…
Visit to Vulture Wintering Sites in India
In the last two years (2021-2022), the Central Asian Vultures project team has tagged eight Egyptian vultures in Uzbekistan with the goal of identifying for the first time the migration routes and wintering sites of…
Egyptian Vulture Online Conference
On the 8th of November 2022, the project team presented two conference talks at the Life+ Egyptian Vulture Online Conference. Anna Ten presented on the status of Egyptian Vultures in Uzbekistan and John Burnside presented…