Above Photo: C. Lisby, Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
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​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
Vulture SAFE T-Shirt Campaign
This campaign will re-launch 9/1/19 and run until 9/22/19
Our July 2019 Campaign raised over $3,500 and sold over 400 shirts! Thank you for your support! ​
Vulture SAFE Go-Fund-Me
This campaign gives guests and people a way to directly donate to the Vulture SAFE program. 
Photo: Denver Zoo
Inside Africa episode 478 - Vultures
​ Vultures, vulture biology, Vulture Crisis. 

AV SAFE Action Plan

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Focal Countries

African Vulture SAFE 3 Year Action Plan

The 3-Year Action Plan prepared by the African Vulture SAFE steering committee outlines the strategic needs and plans for coordinate SAFE program partners. 
African Vulture SAFE 3 Year Action Plan (2018-2020)

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. 

African Vulture SAFE Species

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.

Vultures of the World

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.
The Multi-Species Action Plan
​overview for old world vultures
Vulture Threats map from the Multi-Species Action Plan