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Introducing Wallace

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We’re ecstatic to welcome to our team a five month old Bald Eagle who we have named Wallace. Our naming theme for this year is naturalists so he’s been named after Alfred Russell Wallace, the British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. We’ve teamed him up for training with Simon Christer from our Bird Team and we’ll keep you up to date with his progress over the next few months. (more…)

2019 Photographic Competition Results

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We are delighted to announce the final results for our 2019 Photographic Competition – keep watching to find out the overall winner.

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Vulture populations to be extinct sooner following recent poisonings – poachers’ poisoning attack kills over 500 critically endangered vultures

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June has proved to be a devastating month for the team at Hawk Conservancy Trust, near Andover, as they learned of more than 500 vultures killed in less than a month. More worrying now is the real concern that the Trust’s previous scientific predictions of vulture extinction are highly likely to occur earlier than calculated due to the continuing actions of poachers. (more…)

Winner of Literary Competition Announced

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To celebrate International Vulture Awareness Day 2018, we invited you to take part in our Literary Competition.

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White-headed Vulture chick named

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On Thursday 9 March a tiny, fluffy White-headed Vulture chick joined our team and we are now pleased to announce that we have named it Severus.

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Another White-headed Vulture chick

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On Thursday 9 March a tiny, fluffy White-headed Vulture chick joined our team and we were ecstatic!

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2016 Photographic Competition Results

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The results of the Trust’s annual Photographic Competition are now in!

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Chicks at Changa Manga

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We are thrilled to announce the hatching of two further Oriental White-backed Vulture chicks at the conservation breeding centre at Changa Manga, near Lahore in Pakistan. This exciting news for this critically endangered species follows the breeding success of last April, which was the first successful breeding of this species in captivity in Pakistan.

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The hare and the tortoise method proves best for vulture monitoring

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Slowly but surely: The Royal Society publishes clever report by Dr Campbell Murn that describes the best way to survey large raptors.

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White-headed Vulture hatched at the Trust

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Delight as White-headed Vulture is hatched at the Trust – fantastic news for this Critically Endangered species.

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