Conservation status of the Egyptian vulture population in central and eastern Catalonia

In 2019, the winning project was the one presented by the conservation biology team of the University of Barcelona, which aimed to improve knowledge about the demography and conservation status of the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus). This necrophagous bird, considered “endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is distributed from Asia to the Middle East, the circum-Mediterranean region and some areas south of the Sahara and islands Atlantic such as the Canary Islands. Accidents with electrical lines, hunting, poisons, the loss of natural habitat and the alteration of the main food sources are factors that put the survival of this vulture at risk.