Villafranca de los Barros (Badajoz), Feb 24 (EFE).- The Association for a Wild World (AMUS) will send 26 griffon vultures to the islands of Sardinia (Italy) and Cyprus next week to reinforce the old distributions of these species in those areas and create new hills.
The vultures, placed in individualized carriers for their air travel, will be sent in two groups, the first of which is scheduled for this coming Monday, February 27, while the second will be on March 3, according to a press release sent by the extreme association.
Today in many of these areas there are already created colonies of both species with reproductive pairs and with the population dynamics on the rise, point out from AMUS.
These trips are among the longest organized by AMUS to date to send birds with the aim of reintroducing them to other countries, since these birds of prey will travel more than 4,000 kilometers.
France, Italy, Bulgaria, Sardinia, Cyprus are some of the geographical regions in which AMUS and the General Directorate of Sustainability of the Junta de Extremadura (western Spain) have implemented actions to release griffon and black vultures, through the VCF (Foundation Conservation Vulture).
The Spanish region of Extremadura thus becomes visible in Europe as a “community that generates and exports biodiversity”, they defend from AMUS, who recall that they have been participating in ambitious projects for more than a decade that try to recover extinct or highly rarefied species from the European continent.
