Capacity building project in Africa for conservation of the wintering Balkan population of Egyptian vultures

05.12.2012

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Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB / BirdLife Bulgaria) started a new project "Capacity Building to Support the Conservation of Migratory Egyptian Vultures (Neophron percnopterus) from the Western Palearctic on their Wintering Grounds in Ethiopia, Sudan and Chad" funded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The new project was developed in relation to the LIFE+ project "Urgent measures to secure the survival of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) in Bulgaria and Greece" (LIFE10 NAT/BG/000152) funded by the European Commission and A. G. Leventis foundation and enhances the latter by expanding the conservation actions along the species' flyway outside Europe.

The first step of the project implementation is a training seminar that will take place in January 2013 in Ethiopia. The seminar aims to gather conservationists from the wintering grounds of the critically endangered Balkan population of the Egyptian Vulture (Sudan and Chad) and some neighboring countries (Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia). Lecturers from BSPB will transmit their knowledge to the trainees in order to enhance their capacity for research and conservation of the species at local level.

For more information:

Vladimir Dobrev

BSPB Conservation Officer of LIFE10 NAT/BG/000152

email: vladimir.dobrev@bspb.org

 

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