One of the objectives of the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project is the approval of an Iberian strategy for the conservation of the Bearded Vulture, for which work began on the same day of the presentation of the LIFE. There is no doubt that the application of the previous Spanish bearded vulture conservation strategy, approved [...]

On January 21, the signals from the transmitter indicated that Esperanza had not been moving for several hours, more than usual. She had been sleeping for several days in some small rocks that she used to frequent with other specimens. Shortly afterwards, the FCQ team detected her carcass on an inaccessible ledge. His body was [...]

The MITECO has hosted in Madrid the second meeting of the teams working on the reintroduction of the bearded vulture in Spain, which gives continuity to the cooperation project initiated by the FCQ in Gredos in October 2024. This time it has been the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) the anfition of [...]

The objective is to continue to increase the number of bearded vultures to 20 individuals by 2027. Within the framework of the European LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project managed by the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ). (FCQ), last June 19, four young bearded vultures were transferred to the Regional Park of [...]

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 [...]