Saving South Africa's Vultures

by VulPro

 Gauteng  Environment

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R 50,000
Funded to date
R 50,000
Goal

This project will assist with the rehabilitation and release of vultures from the VulPro rehabilitation center. 

VulPro's rehabilitation centre’s aim is to release all flightable, fit and healthy vultures back into the wild as soon as possible and to provide a safe haven for those unable to be successfully released. This project will focus on releasing vultures for a season and will include funding the veterinary costs, food, tags and transport costs for the vultures.

Vultures form an important ecological component of our natural environment, cleaning up dead carcasses and decreasing the spread of some diseases. The relationship between vultures and people is also a venerable one – vultures played roles in some early societies, including the Egyptian and the Hindu societies; vultures continue to be used as symbols or metaphors in modern societies; and vulture body parts are used in muthi.

Today, vultures face an unprecedented onslaught from human activities. They have to cope with electrocutions and collisions with electrical structures, poisonings, land-use changes, a decrease in food availability and exposure to toxicity through veterinary drugs, to list just a few of some of the challenges facing vultures today.

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Project activity

Funded to date:

R 50,000

Funding goal: R 50,000
NGO: VulPro
Start: 30th November 2016
End: 1st August 2017
Field agent: Kerri Wolter
kerri.wolter@gmail.com
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