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Grant Program

  • June 4, 2021

North Star Science and Technology Transmitter Grant Program And The Winners Are: Project Title: Deployment of GPS trackers for Gyps species Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Satish Pande Species to be tracked: Indian Vulture (Gyps Indicus) & White-rumped Vulture (Gyps Bengalensis) Study Site: Maharashtra, India Units Awarded: 6 Phoenix units (3 for each species) Project Title: Validating a pan-African wind turbine collision […]

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North Star to attend the 2019 European Vulture Conference

  • June 4, 2021

North Star’s Blake Henke is packing his bags for Portugal. For four days in October we will be joining scientists, conservationists and the public in the Algarve, Portugal for an international congress looking at the latest research and conservation of vultures in Europe and beyond. Will you be there? Want to arrange an appointment? Email Blake at blake@northstarst.com

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Lappet-Faced Vulture Takes to the Air

  • June 4, 2021

Our Phoenix, attached to this Lappet-Faced Vulture, is generating some interesting data for these researchers. These are large, old-world vultures indigenous mainly to Africa. Like many old world vultures, they have been in decline since the early 1990s. In this study, conducted by Dr. Evan Buechley, two vultures were fitted with our Phoenix tags in Ethiopia to […]

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