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International alliance to Zagori, Epirus for the Egyptian vulture, against poison baits
22.06.2015Egyptian vulture populations in the Balkans have experienced a rapid decline in the last decades and all evidence points to one direction: poison baits. Although poison baits were once legally used by the authorities to control predators like the wolf, have been banned since 1980 in all Balkan countries, due to their impact on vulture populations. However, this harmful...
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Madzharovo Municipality visited the Eastern Rhodopy Nature Conservation Center on the occasion of the European Natura 2000 Day
18.06.2015On May 21 in the Nature Conservation Center of BSPB “Eastern Rhodopy” was held a meeting with representatives of Madzharovo Municipality on the occasion of the European Natura 2000 Day. The event was organized under the LIFE+ project "The Return of the Neophron" and gathered around 20 people. A BSPB team presented to the audience the main issues related to...
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Watch live the baby Egyptian vulture in the nest with the video camera
16.06.2015For the fourth consecutive year the Egyptian vultures’ family from the nest with the installed video camera has a generation. Anyone can watch the hatchling in real time on the site of the LIFE+ project “The Return of the Neophron”: www.LifeNeophron.eu The nesting niche with the installed camera is located near Provadia. This week students from...
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We continue to monitor the flights of the tagged Egyptian vultures
09.06.2015The last time we present you the latest information for the movements of the tagged with satellite transmitters Egyptian vultures was in the middle of January . Today, they have significantly changed their locations: In early March, Castor left his winter quarters in Ethiopia, crossed the Dardanelles and is currently on the Bulgarian-Greek border in the Eastern...
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BSPB and Sofia Zoo in a joint event for children led by a volunteer from Puerto Rico
06.06.2015On the occasion of the Green Week the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds within the LIFE + project "The Return of the Neophron" jointly with the Environmental and Education and Research Centre of Sofia Zoo organized a workshop for children, dedicated to the Egyptian Vulture. The BSPB volunteer Krisia Ayala from Puerto Rico presented to the children from...
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Tagging of one of the last remaining Egyptian vultures in the Balkans
04.06.2015Who would think that trapping a bird is a difficult task? People have been doing it for hundreds, even thousands of years now, for food, for their colourful plumage, for their melodious songs... However, it would seem that they hadn’t been trying to trap an adult Egyptian vulture in its breeding territory. For the last three years, HOS field team had set out to...
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