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A male Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), ringed as a juvenile in June 1997 and fitted with a GSM GPS transmitter by Simon Thomsett and Ralph Buij of The Peregrine Fund in September 2021, may have been...

New GPS tracking research from a Kenyan wind farm reveals that raptors don't all respond to turbines the same way—and one species in particular is flying dangerously close. The findings are already shaping...

Kenya Power just retrofitted 18 poles at Soysambu Conservancy—the first modification of its kind in Kenya aimed at reducing raptor electrocutions. It's the payoff of years of collaboration between The...

A new study surveying 200 people across 20 communities in The Gambia found nearly 90 percent value Hooded Vultures—but belief-based use of vulture parts remains a widespread, poorly understood threat...

Witnessing the aftermath of a poisoned carcass changed everything for Msafiri Mgumba—not only was the targeted lion killed, but so were dozens of vultures. Today he’s part of the team protecting birds of...

The Peregrine Fund is joining a landmark, five-year effort to restore degraded landscapes across Madagascar. As the first technical and financial partner to sign on to the IREMA Project, we're receiving...

Some of our most important scientific contributions from Madagascar come from firsthand, in-the-field observations, and two new papers from our team qualify. One documents a rare case of leucism in a wild...

Across Africa, vultures face a poisoning crisis that is pushing several species toward extinction. Getting to a poisoning site within hours can mean the difference between a contained event and a...

This past March, a team of researchers including members of our Madagascar team returned to the Alley of the Baobabs with hopes to place at least 11 GPS transmitters on wintering Sooty Falcons—but almost...

You can’t protect what you can’t measure. Across much of Africa, the data needed to guide bird conservation is in short supply—and a new publication in Bird Conservation International, co-authored by our...