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Africa’s largest vulture relocation marks a conservation milestone

The first phase of a project to secure the future of wild vulture populations in southern  Africa has been successfully completed with 160 Cape and African White-backed vultures settled into their new home at Shamwari Private Game Reserve. The birds are the vanguard of a two-year project to establish a breeding facility, VulPro at Shamwari, […]

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, […]

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 […]