The Guardia Civil of Huesca, in a risky operation, recovers bearded vulture eggs.

The operation, carried out by GREIM agents, is part of a program for the conservation of the species. Agents of the Special Mountain Intervention Rescue Group (GREIM) of the Civil Guard of Boltaña, in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Tourism of the Government of Aragon, removed an egg from a Bearded Vulture nest in the Aragonese Pyrenees . This action is part of the work that the Government of Aragon carries out in support of the LIFE pro-Bearded Vulture program, whose main beneficiary and coordinator is the Foundation for the Conservation of the Bearded Vulture (FCQ). Due to the absence of reproductive specimens of Pyrenean lineage in captivity, the Government of Aragon gives clutches to the FCQ for captive breeding. Since 2010, the GREIM of the Civil Guard together with Agents of Nature Protection of the High Altitude Intervention Group, are responsible for removing the eggs from the nests of the Aragonese Pyrenees, of those couples that, based on the guiding criteria for the extraction of Bearded Vulture specimens from the natural environment, have a probability of reproductive success of less than 25%, calculated from the average value of the chicks fledged in two periods of 10 and 5 years, within the framework of the strategy for the conservation of the Bearded Vulture in Spain.

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