Published On: 19 de October de 2025A 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 [...]
Published On: 22 de February de 2025The 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 [...]
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, 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, [...]
Published On: 22 de January de 2025On 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 [...]
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: 27 de October de 2023The eleven students of the training and employment program Forest Uses Candeleda-Gredos, visited the Casa del Parque de Hoyos del Espino, where they learned about the activities carried out on the north side of Gredos. The team of the Bearded Vulture Foundation explained the activities being developed in the area under the LIFE Pro Bearded [...]
Published On: 8 de September de 2023At the beginning of September, the last goat raisers on the mountains grasslands of the Sierra de Gredos met with the FCQ to develop a mutually beneficial project. On the one hand, the aim is to increase the income of livestock farmers through the enhancement of their production and, on the other hand, the maintenance [...]
Published On: 14 de June de 2023Last Tuesday, June 13, the last of the three Bearded Vultures to be released in 2023 arrived at the hacking facilities in the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park. It is a bird born last March, in the Center for Breeding in Human Isolation (CRIAH), owned by the Government of Aragon and managed by the Foundation [...]
Published On: 27 de May de 2023FCQ participates in the opening day of the IX Ornithology Course "Know the Birds of Avila". This course, which since 2014 has been organized by the Provincial Council of Avila, aims to awaken interest in nature, and especially in the world of ornithology and in the 2023 edition has had the participation of 49 people. [...]
Published On: 19 de May de 2023A female named Benemérita will soon join the two birds already flying free in the Sierra de Gredos, Risco and Galana. This Tuesday, he underwent a veterinary check-up and passed to the 'adaptive hacking' platform. Last Tuesday, May 16, the first of the three bearded vultures that will be released during 2023 arrived at the [...]
