Creating a lasting legacy! The Magnificence of vultures being preserved
SAVING AFRICA’S VULTURES
Vultures face multiple man-made threats, including but not limited to poisoning, power line collisions and electrocutions, direct harvesting for cultural beliefs, and ever decreasing foraging ranges. Some vulture species are threatened with possible extinction within our lifetime unless we can curb the ongoing downward spiral now!
Some populations have plummeted by over 90% in the past 30 years.
At VulPro we are working towards Saving Africa’s Vultures through:
VULPRO REHABILITATION
VulPro collects injured vultures from all over South Africa.
VULPRO RESEARCH & EDUCATION
Education is an important tool, we interact and communicate with farmers, landowners and communities.
VULPRO CAPTIVE BREEDING PROGRAMME
VulPro has spearheaded ex-situ conservation breeding of African Vulture species.
Mission statement
Protecting African vultures through collaboration and innovation
Each individual counts, as each individual saved and released back into the wild, contributes to saving wild vulture populations
KERRI WOLTER, FOUNDER
SAVING AFRICAS VULTURES
WHAT WE DO
VULPRO REHABILITATION
VulPro collects injured vultures from all over South Africa, undertaking ground breaking veterinary treatment and rehabilitation initiatives to give each vulture that comes into our care, a second chance and the best possible hope for survival and release.
VULPRO RESEARCH & EDUCATION
VulPro believes in addressing vulture conservation in a all-encompassing manner. As such we combine captive and wild population research; population surveys; threat identification and mitigation as well as education, altogether, in an adaptive management approach for the benefit of having the highest possibilities of success i.e saving Africa’s vultures.
VULPRO CAPTIVE BREEDING PROGRAMME
Vulture species continue to plummet to unsustainable levels. VulPro has spearheaded ex-situ conservation breeding of African Vulture species. We consult and train globally, ensuring a collaborative effort to advance breeding strategies and protocols. This allows non-releasable vultures to positively contribute to saving their wild counterparts by producing viable offspring which can and which are released into the wild to re-inforce dwindling populations and in future, to bring vultures back into historical breeding sites where they have become extinct.
(including captive bred)
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Vulpro Clinic Inventory
We are so pleased to let everyone know we have successfully completed our on-site hospital. It is through the generosity of our supporters that we successfully reached our dream goal.
Over the last 6 months, we have used our consulting room daily for treatments and post-mortems. In addition, of late, we have been receiving a lot of rain and therefore using the new ICU units which are under roofing, to treat and monitor birds closely during their recovery. Even though our lab is not yet fully equipped, we do already have some basic equipment such as a lead analyser, centrifuge, microscopes, etc. We undertake lead analysis almost daily for all birds coming into the Centre as well as for any wild captures we undertake, to further our knowledge on vulture lead levels and whether lead is a severe threat to African vultures. Furthermore, we are in consultation with Siemens about a potential x-ray machine which they want to scrap and may be happy to donate it to us, however, this will still take some time, but we are optimistic.
A BIG THANK YOU TO
OUR SPONSORS
Contact Us
Have you found a vulture, bird of prey or other large bird that needs help in Southern Africa? (or even further afield?).
Please call Kerri immediately (All Hours!).
In many cases, hours make the difference between life or death / releasable or not, so do not wait!
EMERGENCIES ONLY +27 82 808 5113
