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Another first for South Africa as UP veterinary team performs beak transplant on vulture
What do you do when a vulture with a crushed beak needs a new beak and two attempts to fit an acrylic beak fail? You improvise and use the beak of a deceased vulture, successfully enabling the injured bird to feed again. In another first for South Africa, this remarkable[...]
VulPro, Eskom and the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) save our vultures
South Africa’s vultures face the very real threat of extinction, from numerous threats mostly occurring from direct and indirect poisonings, new developments, poaching and human encroachment on their breeding and foraging ranges. One of the most prolific threats vultures face are power lines resulting in electrocutions and collisions. At[...]