Initiated in 1986, an international project of reintroduction has enabled one to release 144 individuals from captive-breeding stock until 2006. About 75% of these individuals are believed to fly over the Alps at present.
The reintroduction of birds to the wild is going on. Young vultures born in breeding stations and zoos are released every year at four different sites in the Alps: Swiss National Park (Graub�nden), Haute-Savoie (France), Mercantour-Argentera (France-Italy) and Austria.
The release efforts will cease only when a sufficient self-sustainable population (i.e. several regular breeding pairs) will have been established in the overall alpine range.
Up to now the project is a success story 33 natural births have been documented in the Alps over the past years, among which 7 in 2005. One of the first birds born in the wild (in 1998) bred in Italy in 2005: This marks a new phase in the reintroduction programme!
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