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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 2

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I have been following the local gulls with GPS tags and they spend most of their time in rubbish tips in Spain and Morocco. They, too, will drive Griffons into the sea and kill them. Yet, all the gulls are doing is defending their own. If there are too many gulls, it’s largely our fault for providing so much food for them.

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Africa’s endangered species

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An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley. Northern Bald Ibis also occurred in North Africa and many colonies survived in Morocco and Algeria but this tragic pattern continued with the last colony in Algeria vanishing in the 1980’s.