February 2014: The notorious power line from Port Sudan to the Red Sea coast, which is reported to have electrocuted hundreds, if not thousands, of migrating Endangered Egyptian vultures since its construction in the 1950s, has been disconnected. The most recent survey found, during the month of September, the carcasses of 17 Egyptian vultures along the power line.
This decisive action by the Sudanese government and power company officials follows years of work by BSPB (BirdLife in Bulgaria), and BirdLife’s UNDP/GEF Migratory Soaring Birds (MSB) project and its local NGO partner, the Sudanese Wildlife Society (SWS).
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