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 […]
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 […]
THANK YOU Siemens Healthineers
We are so grateful to have the support of Siemens Healthineers South Africa aiding us in our mission to save African vulture populations. They have so generously donated the most incredible Ultrasound Machine to us. Please read their press statement below. Siemens Healthineers South Africa extends the wings of vulture conservation Advancing the community […]
CONGRATS
Congratulations to John Turner who has just renewed his adoption of PJ, one of our flight impaired Cape Vultures in the Open Enclosure. John first met and fell in love with PJ when he was volunteering at VulPro. Since then PJ keeps tugging at his ‘Dad’s” heartstrings and bringing him back to South Africa. We […]