The Vulture Conservation Project (VulPro) operates a vulture rescue and rehabilitation programme to treat injured, grounded, and disabled vultures, which are released as soon as possible and subsequently monitored.
Vultures play an important ecological role by cleaning up dead carcasses and decreasing the spread of disease. However, they face many threats from human activities, such as electrocutions, decrease in food availability and poisoning. VulPro works across South Africa to protect the endangered Cape vulture and other species. It approaches vulture conservation in an integrated, multidisciplinary fashion, combining education and science with networking and capacity building.
VulPro has a research programme, an outreach and education initiative, special breeding facilities, GPS tracking and ‘vulture restaurants’, which provide wild populations with uncontaminated carcasses as supplemental food.
Species Protected: Vultures
© VulPro
© VulPro
How Tusk works with Our Project Partners
We provide critical funding to enable our project partners to grow and increase their impact on habitat and wildlife, while also enabling, nurturing and supporting collaboration between them, for greater synergy and impact.
We help to increase awareness and wider support for our partners’ efforts, while also sharing important conservation messages, from the vital and varied roles of wildlife rangers, to the benefits of community-driven conservation, both within Africa and internationally.
VulPro has been a Tusk partner since 2013.
This Project Makes a Difference Through…
Environmental Education
Endangered Species Protection
Local Population Employed: 12
Area Protected: 94,000 ha
