Last Monday the FCQ presented the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project to the members of SEPRONA and GREIM of the Avila command in the Casa del Parque de Hoyos del Espino. During the conference, the details of the project were explained and special emphasis was placed on the aspects in which the Civil Guard can [...]

Throughout the month of January, taking advantage of the fact that the herds are in winter quarters, FCQ technicians have traveled through the Sierra de Gredos to analyze the situation of extensive livestock farming in mountain pastures. The report highlights that, while cattle have doubled their numbers since 1982, sheep have almost disappeared and maintain [...]

Last March, the two bearded vultures released in Gredos in the framework of the LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture project, settled for several months in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, which suggests The national park will become one of the most important points during the dispersal process in the coming years. For this reason, the [...]

Training sessions on the Life Corredores Ibéricos por quebrantahuesos project in Molinos (Teruel). In 2022, two bearded vultures were released in the Maestrazgo region (Teruel). This release is part of the LIFE Iberian Corridors for the Bearded Vulture project, whose objective is to recover the historical territories lost by the species in the Iberian System. [...]

Tawny vultures tagged as toxic sentinels enable detection of another unexpected threat: the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus. The Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) and the Government of Aragon have unexpectedly detected antibodies against the avian influenza virus in seven of the eight griffon vultures they have captured in the [...]

On March 15, the partners of LIFE Pro Bearded Vulture, FCQ, MITECO, the Government of Aragon, and the Associaçao Naturaleza y Hombre Portugal, met in Vila Real (Portugal), with representatives of the Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (ICNF). At the meeting, various aspects of the LIFE project were discussed and it was [...]

The FCQ and the management of the Gredos Regional Reserve. On 11-3-2023, the traditional annual hunting auction was held in the Gredos Regional Reserve, which FCQ attended. They were able to observe firsthand the hunting management of the reserve and its importance for the territory. Esta actividad permite no solo gestionar los recursos de [...]

This year, the company will voluntarily install bird-saving devices on 160 kilometers of the network in the Pyrenees, Picos de Europa, El Maestrazgo and Sierra de Cazorla. "The proposal agreed with the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ) is very relevant and innovative for the conservation of the species in Spain," says [...]

Four conservation foundations: Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre, Fundacion Oso Pardo, Fundación Global Nature and Fundación Quebrantahuesos (FCQ) , show our concern about the regulation that is being voted today in the Energy Council of the European Union, which proposes the declaration of overriding public interest in the planning and operation of renewable installations, which allows [...]

The Platform in favor of the landscapes of Teruel shows its disagreement with this resolution and informs that, once the administrative route has been exhausted, it will resort to the courts. The administrative route is coming to an end for one of those projects that the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, in the [...]