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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The field team carried out fieldwork in Uzbekistan between 25th July 2022 – 4th August 2022. The team, Vladimir Dobrev, Anna Ten, Valentine Soldatov and Dobromir Dobrev, all put a huge effort into surveying rubbish…
The field team in Uzbekistan, Anya, Valya, Vladimir and Dobromir, have successfully caught a 5 year old Egyptian Vulture adult female. They caught her on a dump site near the town of Kitab. The dump…
We have great news this year. OSME and OBC have both agreed to fund the Central Asian Vulture Project again this year. This is on top of the support from the Hawk Conservancy, UK. The…
Since the last update in March, one of our three vultures has moved, while two have remained on their wintering grounds. First, migratory EVs often remain on their wintering ground in their first spring, possibly…
