Volunteer Story: So like a chicken?
This was the response of the Botswana Customs and Excise official when presented with an export permit to convey a Lappet-faced Vulture across the border to South Africa. In early March 2023, VulPro made history by successfully importing a non-releasable Lappet-faced Vulture from Botswana to his new home at VulPro. For the past few years, […]
Anecdotes of a VulPro Volunteer | Les Faber
My instruction was to meet at a gate to the entrance of a farm Nooitgedacht 10 Km north-west of Hekpoort on a pleasant sunny morning in early May 2017. I had forgotten though, to enter the coordinates given to me into my GPS. Good start to being a VulPro volunteer I sarcastically thought to […]
Volunteer
Volunteering at the Centre Vulpro hosts many volunteers per annum, from right across globe. Being a non-profit organisation, having the assistance of willing and capable hands is of great help with our organisations daily tasks. Vulpro promises to be an experience to remember, truly emerging people into the life of vultures. Our team of staff are […]
Catastrophe: Another 100 critically endangered vultures dead, poisoned in Mpumalanga
Hartbeespoort, 18 May 2025. Vulpro, One of Africa’s only vulture-focused conservation organisation, together with Wild and Free Rehabilitation Centre in Mpumalanga, has confirmed a significant poisoning incident in the Lionspruit Game Reserve near Marloth Park, Mpumalanga. Over 100 vultures have died, including 92 White-backed vultures of which 90% were breeding adults, 9 Hooded vultures and one male adult White-headed vulture.
First Cape Vulture sighting in over 30 years
Conservationists at Vulpro, Africa’s only vulture-focused conservation organisation are celebrating the sighting of over 80 wild Cape Vultures on a farm just 40 kilometers outside Mountain Zebra National Park, in Spitskop Cradock this week. After not seeing vultures in this region for over 30 years, news of the sighting comes as a huge relief and is a testament to the incredible work Vulpro is doing to improve survival rates of vultures who have been poisoned and hunted to near extinction, with some species already ceasing to exist.
How Can You Help?
Donate Individual and corporate contributions are welcomed with open arms, and are acknowledged according to the type of support given, for instance, on our website, facebook, email signature and where relevant on signage at our facility, this can be discussed in more detail by contacting us. Donations can be made directly into out bank account […]
VulPro Flies High In Germany
By Bettina Boemans In July of 2022, I got a message from Kerri that she was invited to represent Vulpro at the Species Conservation Day at Wilhelma–Zoologisch-Botanischer Garten, Stuttgart, Germany, on 4 September. Travelling from South Africa to Germany just for one day would be a would have been difficult, so she asked me if […]
Why VulPro Is My Happy Place
By Dr Sarah Woodhouse I am a specialist Zoo Veterinarian from the USA and currently volunteering in South Africa at VulPro. While it is amazing to work with gorillas, stingrays and chameleons every day, I find my true fulfilment working with vultures at VulPro. Using the veterinary skills I’ve developed with birds of all shapes […]
A Rescue Story
By Laura Nelson Doing vulture rescues can be exhilarating, heartbreaking or hilarious, or really fun and games. It all depends on the day and the bird. Volunteers have to be ready to do anything to get the birds to Vulpro alive. On 16 August 2022, we had a rescue from a nature reserve just outside […]
Meet the team
Alistair Sinclair Country of origin: South AfricaPosition: General Manager Alistair Sinclair I was born and raised in Durban in the early 1960’s into a very conservation-minded family. Family holidays were always spent in game reserves or on a farm in the Underberg District. This naturally instilled in me a huge passion for animals and the […]