Above Photo: C. Lisby, Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
AZA SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction focuses the collective expertise within accredited zoos and aquariums and leverages their massive audiences to save species. African vultures are now an official SAFE species. #SaveOurScavengers #VultureSAFE
Great news! The Vulture SAFE program received a $24,620 grant through AZA SAFE - to support poison response trainings in Botswana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The grant also includes support for conference attendance for several of our partners at the Pan-African Ornithology Congress in November 2020 to work towards best practices in these types of trainings and to share these with colleagues at the conference. We are very excited for this support and the work we will be able to do as a result! |
Fundraisers
Vulture Jewelry FundraiserWe've partnered with Andrew Schumann of Schumann Sculpture, who has created some beautiful pieces for the Vulture SAFE program. $4-5 from each piece will go to the Vulture SAFE program.
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African Vulture Toolkit
SAFE Focus Days
We've also provided frames and logos if you would like to use your own images.
Branding
Visit our Google Drive folder with Vulture SAFE Branding and Logos
Photo: Denver Zoo
Inside Africa episode 478 - Vultures
Vultures, vulture biology, Vulture Crisis. 
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AV SAFE Action Plan
Focal Countries
African Vulture SAFE 3 Year Action PlanThe 3-Year Action Plan prepared by the African Vulture SAFE steering committee outlines the strategic needs and plans for coordinate SAFE program partners.
Annual Reports and Updates2019 Vulture SAFE Updates
North Carolina Zoo's Annual Report: Southern Tanzania Vulture Program
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Vulture Education Resources
Untamed Science- Vultures
with the North Carolina Zoo's Dr. Corinne Kendall, African Vulture SAFE Program Leader. This video gives a great overview of vulture crises around the world, especially the African Vulture Crisis.
with the North Carolina Zoo's Dr. Corinne Kendall, African Vulture SAFE Program Leader. This video gives a great overview of vulture crises around the world, especially the African Vulture Crisis.
African Vulture SAFE Species
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African vulture species function as a scavenging guild with each species providing unique adaptations necessary to find and dispose of carrion collectively. As such, it makes more sense to focus conservation efforts on a suite of African vulture species rather than a single species.
This subset of African vultures was selected for the SAFE program for a number of reasons. First, these are the most common African vulture species found in AZA institutions. Second, a number of zoos already had conservation initiatives linked to these species at the time of the submission of the proposal for African Vultures as a SAFE program. Finally, these species have a large amount of overlap in their geographic distribution (with the exception of Ruppell’s and Cape Vultures) and share similar threats and thus conservation needs. Our program can thus focus on a few key activities that can have a positive effect on all six species considered here.
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African Vulture Multi-Species Action Plan (MSAP)The MSAP is a collaborative action plan covering 128 range states which aims to provide a comprehensive, strategic conservation Action Plan covering the geographic ranges of all 15 species of migratory African-Eurasian vultures and to promote concerted, collaborative and coordinated international actions towards the recovery of these populations to acceptable levels by 2029.
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The Multi-Species Action Plan
overview for old world vultures |
Vulture Threats map from the Multi-Species Action Plan
