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Additionally, a regional recovery plan for the sub-species would be drawn up and implemented. Finally, to avoid the potential threat during famine periods, three controlled feeding sites would be created with the collaboration of local livestock breeders. Surveillance and awareness-raising measures would be implemented with the aim of reducing the illegal use of poison and looking at finding an alternative to lead ammunition. The aim of increasing the birds’ breeding success by 20% tackled. Surveillance of nesting would be reinforced to avoid disturbance in critical periods. The introduction of corrective measures for the island’s power lines would seek a net reduction of the mature mortality by 50%. The project aimed to improve the conservation status of the Canarian Egyptian vulture by halting its downwards population trend, improving its breeding success and preserving its habitat in the best possible conditions within the SPA network on Fuerteventura.

In the future, the implementation of stricter health controls over carrion could also cause an endemic lack of food sources for the vultures. The main threats for the small population of c.150 individuals (2006) are the risk of collision and electrocution from power lines, illegal poisoning and/or intoxication through ingestion of lead (bullets) used in hunting, other illegal practices for control of species competing with human activities, and disturbance from a growing tourism activity. Once widely present on the Canary Islands, research today show this vulture is only found on the island of Fuerteventura (25 areas were recorded in 2001 and 38 in 2006), and a residual population (2 areas) remains on the island of Lanzarote. majorensis), the southernmost population of the vultures in the EU, which deserves particular attention as it presents clear distinctive features when compared with the Continental species. Similar worrying figures have been recorded for the recently recorded (2001) Canarian sub-species of the Egyptian vulture ( Neophron percnopterus ssp. However, some 80% of the European population is still found there. In Spain, the species has declined by some 70% over the past two decades. The Egyptian vulture ( Neophron percnopterus), known in the Canaries as "guirre", is suffering a decline in its European distribution range that is particularly acute in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Southern France.