Alliance against the illegal use of poison baits in Epirus

07.03.2018

With great success has taken place a workshop for the illegal use of poisoned baits in Epirus, at the Conference Centre of the Epirus Region in Ioannina. The workshop aim was the planning of the prevention and combat of the wildlife poisoning, through the development of a procedures manual to the competent local authorities and bodies of the Ioannina Region . In Greece,...

New repairs in the Wildlife Rescue centre

06.03.2018

Just a few days ago reconstruction works for two aviaries - future home for Egyptian vultures - has started in the Wildlife Rescue centre. The works are part of "Egyptian vulture New LIFE" project's action: Establishment of Balkan captive breeding population of Egyptian vultures for recovery of breeding populations in Bulgaria and Greece. 14 countries from...

The fate of the first captive-bred Egyptian Vultures released in Bulgaria

27.02.2018

Elodie, the last of the first three captive-bred Egyptian Vultures, tagged with satellite transmitters and released in the wild in 2016, died. Elodie was the second documented case of tagged juvenile Egyptian vulture that crossed successfully the Mediterranean Sea from the Balkans. This happened during her first migration. She was wintering in Niger where in...

Monitoring of Egyptian Vulture migration on Antikythira Island 2017

26.02.2018

New Technical Report, created under the LIFE project “Egyptian vulture New LIFE” presents data from the monitoring of Egyptian vultures on Antikythira island in Greece, held in August and September 2017. Antikythira is a small island of the Aegean Sea, located between Kythira and Crete in South Greece. The island serves as a leading line for migrating...

A short story on our athletes

28.01.2018

Only 5 out of total 27 birds tagged since 2012 survived by 2018 to surprise us with new interesting stories. Iliaz is the only survivor from the nine juveniles tagged in 2012. The bird is already an adult (almost 6 years old) with an amazing background. Iliaz wintered from the east to the west of the whole Sahel area in the last 4 winters, used multiple and...

A new pair of Egyptian Vultures is about to form at the aviaries of the Rescue Centre of Green Balkans

19.01.2018

For a few months the team of the Rescue Centre of Green Balkans has been particularly interested in the young Egyptian Vultures living in one of the aviaries of the Centre. Two of the birds quite impressed us. They definitely show more intensive interactions, staying close to each other almost the entire time and also close to the artificial nesting platform installed by...