Published On: 21 de February de 2025Last February 21, the group of farmers who are going to start the production of mountain cheese Pro Biodiversidad met at the Cooperative of Goat Breeders of Candeleda. In 2024, production had to be stopped due to the lack of a suitable maturing cellar. In February, the installation of a new chamber in the cheese [...]
Published On: 21 de June de 2024The objective is to continue to increase the number of bearded vultures to 20 individuals by 2027. As part of the European LIFE Pro Bearded Vultureis managed by the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ), four young bearded vultures were transferred to the Regional Park of Gredos in Ávila on June 19. [...]
Published On: 17 de May de 2024Three new bearded vultures have arrived today at the Picos de Europa National Park to strengthen the existing population of 40 birds. After a detailed veterinary check-up, they are taken to the hacking facilities, where they will complete their development until their first flight. During this period they will be supervised and monitored by FCQ [...]
Published On: 24 de April de 2024The visit brought together the goat farmers of the Sierra de Gredos who participate in the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project through the production of high quality cheeses. A group of goat breeders from the Sierra de Gredos visited yesterday, at the invitation of the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ), the [...]
Published On: 8 de April de 2024Galana, la quebrantahuesos que soñaba con volar acompañada' will reach more than 1,000 schoolchildren in the province of Avila, where there is currently a population of 5 lammergeyers. On April 4, the presentation of 'Galana, la quebrantahuesos que soñaba con volar acompañada' (Galana, the bearded vulture that dreamed of flying accompanied) took place at the [...]
Published On: 14 de March de 2024In its commitment to sustainability, the reserve's guards will stop using lead ammunition and the same will be recommended to ibex hunters. On March 11, the annual auction of hunting lots of the Regional Hunting Reserve of Gredos (Ávila) took place in the mountain town of Cuevas del Valle (Ávila). The big novelty this year [...]
Published On: 7 de March de 2024The Government of Aragón has begun to collaborate with the Junta de Andalucía in the conservation of the bearded vulture. Yesterday, we received the visit of the President of the Government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón and the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Manuel Blasco at the Center for the Recovery and Breeding of the Bearded [...]
Published On: 15 de February de 2024The bearded vulture disappeared from Gredos in the 40's of the last century. As part of the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project managed by the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ), we have traveled to the mountain town of Candeleda (Ávila) for a first tasting of the raw goat's milk cheeses that [...]
Published On: 15 de September de 2023A total of 21 Bearded Vulture chicks have fledged in the Pre-Pyrenees and Aragonese Pyrenees during the 2022-2023 season. These data show the stability of the population of this species in the region, given that the productivity index - the number of chicks that fly in relation to the number of breeding units analyzed - [...]
