North Carolina Zoo’s (NCZ) work to date, in partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), has included population monitoring, ranger training in responding to poisoning events, awareness raising, and satellite tagging of several vulture species. Together these activities have provided crucial information about vulture ecology and behavior in the region, helped to reduce poisoning activities, and when poisoning does occur, has ensured rapid clean-up, evidence collection, vulture rehabilitation, and the arrest of perpetrators. NCZ and WCS are working to address the threat of poisoning to vultures in southern Tanzania, a stronghold for white-headed vultures.

Researchers from the Peregrine Fund have focused on answering key research questions to guide conservation initiatives in Kenya and East Africa, and more recently have begun monitoring breeding colonies to assess our conservation impact. Tagging and tracking vulture movements by this team has helped to identify key habitats and priority areas for conservation efforts, as well as to highlight their wide-ranging movements across Each and Central Africa, which were previously unknown.