The menu of rotting carcasses at Sardinia’s latest restaurant is proving a smash hit, serving a range of meats to save one of Europe’s rarest birds of prey.
More than 30 cattle farmers have fenced off small dining areas in fields where they dump their dead livestock to the delight of local griffon vultures.
“These vulture restaurants have proved a great success and there are plans for 30 more openings across Sardinia,” Fiammetta Berlinguer, a veterinarian at Sassari University who helped launch the scheme, said.
The griffon vulture, a native of southern Europe, was a common sight in Italy but its number dropped from 1,000 in 1950 to a colony of 100 near Bosa in Sardinia by 2015. The raptors died after eating the
