One of the ways BalkanDetox LIFE plans to mitigate illegal wildlife poisoning is by utilizing GPS tracking of Griffon Vultures. These birds are social, forage in groups, cover vast distances regularly, and quickly detect animal carcasses by using their incredible eyesight and following visual cues. This ability enables them to consume carcasses fast and efficiently, which provides environmental benefits to nature, other wildlife and humans. However, it also means that if they feed on a poisoned carcass, many Griffon Vultures can be wiped out just by a single poisoning incident. The project foresees to monitor all Griffon Vulture colonies in the Balkans to effectively track and prevent mass poisonings incidents of the species and other scavenging animals, as they would also act as sentinel species. To achieve this, the project needs to equip 25 Griffon Vultures with GPS transmitters and at the same time collaborate with different projects that tag Balkan vultures to utilize their data, an action coordinated by the Fund for Wild Flora and Fauna. All the tracking data will be available in a platform accessible to all project partners, enabling them to intensively monitor bird behaviour on an hourly basis in combination with frequent field visits in places where the vultures landed and seem to have taken food.