Environment Ministry asked to fund NIS 20 million yearly to remove poison-laced carcasses put out by farmers and accidentally consumed by the birds

Israel Nature and Parks Authority opens probe into circumstances leading to their deaths

Israel Nature and Parks Authority hopes Jewish new year will be better than last, when 12 of the endangered birds were poisoned

Amendment to Wildlife Act, introduced by Meretz's Mossi Raz and passed in preliminary Knesset reading, seeks to protect vultures, other animals from poisoning by farmers

Chief scientist calls for cutting food waste, regulating wild dog numbers, and banning poisons that also kill vultures

Nature and Parks Authority says two dead dogs also discovered; one of the birds had been fitted with a radio transmitter; all corpses to be examined

Nature and Parks Authority suspects malicious poisoning after corpses located next to dead goat in Judean Desert

Israel Nature and Parks Authority hopes sightings of subspecies of ecologically important lappet-faced vulture signal its return

Just over a year after eight of the birds were poisoned, the population still remains endangered and concentrated in just two areas of country, with natural reproduction slow

For fifth year, Raptor Nestcam unobtrusively records lives of several raptor species, starting with long-legged buzzards and griffon vultures