Last 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 [...]
The 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. [...]
Three 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 [...]
The 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 [...]
Galana, 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 [...]
In 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 [...]
The 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 [...]
The 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 [...]
Like the Iberian Lynx, the Black Vulture or the Imperial Eagle, the Bearded Vulture inhabited all the mountains of the Iberian Peninsula, in most of which it was eradicated throughout the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Organized by the FCQ, the first Seminar of the Iberian Strategy for the conservation of [...]
REE, with the support of the FCQ, has submitted its project to reduce the risk of its power lines for the bearded vulture to the red Natura 2000 award. Since 2011, REE has voluntarily beaconed its power lines in Special Protection Areas for Birds and other sensitive areas to avoid bird collisions, a commitment it [...]
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