Earlier this month, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment released the Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP) for South African Vultures for public comment. No sooner had the send button been hit, another vulture poisoning event took place in Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal. Photo by Anel Olivier, Wildlife ACT’s Vulture Conservation Programme Manager. On Sunday 18th December, the […]
Bald eagles poisoned near landfill where euthanized animals were dumped
Comment on this story Comment Last Sunday, police in a Minneapolis suburb brought a sick bald eagle they’d found lying in the snow near a landfill to the University of Minnesota’s Raptor Center. The eagle was barely moving when it was picked up, which is abnormal behavior for the revered birds — and a sign […]