The four copies of Egyptian vulture in August marked with a satellite system by WWF are now back to Spain.
After nearly six months in the range of Sahel-Saharan Africa , birds flying over now the Sahara desert before reaching the Strait and cross the Iberian Peninsula.
The journey of these four owls, 'baptized' as Vega, Sahel, Duna and Wheat from Africa to the Gorges of Riaz, in Segovia, from where they started in September 2010, may be followed by any citizen on the web that the NGO has arranged to raise awareness of the problems that this species is threatened.
A dangerous return
The four vultures now it is up to his stage face "more dangerous" of the Peninsula, warns WWF, since March is one of the months of greater use of poisoned baits in the field , the main threat to a raptor that is in serious danger of disappearing in Spain.
These problems need to supply possible electrocutions and collisions with wind turbines with power lines .
In case of any of these situations, the GPS transmitters will detect where is the Egyptian vulture "and intervene immediately in a case of poisoning."
In this regard, WWF claims that the Ministry of Environment that encourages projects to detect and identify the main wintering grounds and migration routes of the Egyptian vulture, a species that has suffered a decrease in the Iberian Peninsula about 25 % of its population.
Since 1995, WWF has recorded about 200 vultures poisoning deaths in the whole peninsula.
Via: World
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