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Endangered Egyptian vulture reappears at Friuli nature reserve
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ROME – Sources recently said that Europe's most at risk vulture has reappeared in a Friuli nature reserve.
The Egyptian vulture, which is the most at risk of extinction on the continent as well as Europe's smallest, is back nesting in the Cornino Lake Reserve.
Nature experts and park officials said it had come from Spain.
"There are now fewer than 3,000 pairs of Egyptian vulture, over half of which are found in the Iberian Peninsula,” said the reserve's scientific director, Fulvio Genero.
In Italy, only a dozen or so pairs remain, mostly concentrated in Sicily.
Italian passport good for 192 visa-free destinations
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ROME – Italy has the world's joint second most powerful passport behind Singapore, according to the 2024 Henley Passport Index.
The passport of the Asian city State gives access without a prior visa to 195 travel
destinations out of 227 around the world, according to the index, which is based data from the International Air Transport Association.
Italy's passport came second with 192 visa-free destinations along with those of France, Germany, Japan and Spain.