Backed by the African Raptor Trust, the bearded vulture breeding programme is focused on harvesting 20 to 30 second eggs from cliff-face nests to hatch and raise at the centre. The birds live high in the Drakensburg mountains between Lesotho and South Africa, where breeding only happens once a year in winter and the elusive pairs lay two eggs — but only raise one chick!
Through this project, the breeding group will form a genetic reserve, to release the birds (once raised) back into the wild to help grow their numbers.