Savanna VULTURE Project
“One of the project’s aims was to find out where vultures are breeding, but the vast area that needed to be searched made this work a challenge in terms of logistics and the costs involved.”
The Greater Kruger National Park is home to breeding populations of five vulture species, which makes it the perfect place for studying and monitoring these birds. These vultures are all either endangered (lappet-faced vulture and Cape vulture ) or critically endangered (white-headed vulture , hooded vulture and white-backed vulture ). Vultures were once common and widespread across Africa, but they are now going through unprecedented declines across the continent. The Greater
