A group of 34 people belonging to the local groups SEO-Sierra de Guadarrama and SEO-Ávila visited the LIFE Pro BV project in the Sierra de Gredos. They were received by the FCQ team of the Sierra de Gredos in the center that the Foundation runs in Navalperal de Tormes. Here FCQ technicians gave an introduction [...]

The recognition values the support to extensive mountain livestock farming in coexistence with wildlife, which results in an increase of livestock farmers in the initiative's area of influence and in the improvement of their economy. The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) has been recognized by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and [...]

Environment and the Bearded Vulture Foundation have already placed the first containers in Liébana and Peñarrubia and have established a collection schedule to provide a "concrete solution to a real need of the territory". Cantabria has just launched a pilot project, unique in Spain, for the collection and valorization of sheep wool, from flocks of [...]

A pilot project to valorize the wool of farmers who market PRO Biodiversidad branded lamb The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture has reached a "historic milestone" with the birth and flight in freedom of the first chick of this species in Cantabria since its extinction in the autonomous community one hundred years [...]

The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) invites the public to the conference 'Bearded Vulture: from extinction to recovery in Cantabria', to be held next Monday, July 14 at 10:30 am in the Center for Lebaniegos Studies, in Potes (Cantabria). This public event, with free admission until full capacity is reached, is [...]

https://youtube.com/shorts/3FnfhVUt1T4?si=oiLk-pH7aVumbyMH Environmental agents of the Junta de Castilla y León and the Government of Aragón have monitored the breeding pair, with the collaboration of technicians from the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture. The chick's name is Moncayo . The Bearded Vulture returns to the Iberian System and does so from Soria. The [...]

On June 2, 2025, two three-month-old lammergeier chicks from Andalusia were transferred to the Picos de Europa National Park as part of the LIFE project 'Iberian Corridors Pro Bearded Vulture'. This initiative, coordinated by the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ), seeks to promote the genetic diversity of the species in the [...]

Both individuals will be released during the month of June in a coordinated action between the Government of Aragón and the Junta de Castilla y León. View this post on Instagram A post shared from Proyecto LIFE Pro Quebrantahuesos (@lifeprobv). Last Monday, 11 May, the following have been received the first two specimens of [...]

The LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project has had a prominent presence at the International Ornithological Tourism Fair FIO 2025, with a stand and a conference in the main tent. In this 20th edition of FIO there were 114 exhibitors and 18,984 visitors: on Saturday (8,135), Sunday (6,167) and Friday (4,682). The FCQ stand was in [...]

Last February 21, the group of farmers who are going to start the production of mountain cheese Pro Biodiversidad, in the framework of the LIFE Pro BV project, 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, [...]