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The south, just 21 kilometers away, is the coast of Morocco and the Griffons have just completed a short but arduous sea-crossing across the Strait of Gibraltar. With luck, they might be rescued but others drown. This time it’s a group of Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus that have just arrived from the south.
The lucky ones are rescued and rehabilitated at a unit run by the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society (GONHS) but many others never make it. I have been following the local gulls with GPS tags and they spend most of their time in rubbish tips in Spain and Morocco.
Fortunately the donkey was rescued by the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad (SPANA). Like many poor people in Morocco, Humar’s owner had little chance of being able to afford a vet – or even find one close by. Horrible story. Here's what they say about "the Firing Squad," a horrible method of "treating" wounded work animals.
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