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.
South Africa’s vultures face extinction as power infrastructure claims more lives
(Eastern Cape, 11 April 2025). Power lines and wind farms continue to devastate South Africa's critically endangered vulture populations as expanding human development increasingly encroaches on vital habitat, forcing these beautiful and misunderstood birds into deadly conflict with infrastructure.
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.