The Greim rescues two eggs from a Bearded Vulture nest on a ledge in the Pyrenees.
Specialists from Boltaña carried out the intervention, as the area was very difficult to access. The agents of the Guardia Civil had to descend through the sinkhole of a 40-meter wall. Agents of the Special Rescue Group of Mountain Intervention (Greim) of the Civil Guard of Boltaña, in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Tourism of the Government of Aragon, removed on February 29, two eggs from a Bearded Vulture nest in the Aragonese Pyrenees. It was located on a small ledge in an area of very difficult access and, therefore, the specialists had to go down the sinkhole of a 40-meter wall. This action is part of the work that the Government of Aragon carries out in support of the LIFE pro-Bearded Vulture program, whose beneficiary and main 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 in charge of removing the eggs from the nests of the Aragonese Pyrenees, of those pairs that, according to 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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