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Major vulture conservation milestone celebrated 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 having settled into their new home at Shamwari Private Game Reserve, near Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape. The birds are the vanguard of a two-year project to establish a breeding facility, VulPro at Shamwari, for sick or injured vultures that have been rehabilitated and are able to breed but are non-releasable. In what is the largest relocation of vultures ever undertaken, the birds were transported the 1 042km from VulPro’s facility in Hartbeespoort to enclosures at Shamwari. The move involved over 50 people and took 18 hours, with all 160 birds loaded in just three hours. Logistics…

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