International cooperation against illegal wildlife trade

28.12.2015

Everybody has heard about the illegal trade of ivory in Africa, where hundreds of elephants are hunted down and killed every year for their tusks that reach shocking prices in the black market. Most people have also heard about the poaching of rhinos for their horns, tigers for their bones, crocodiles for their skins, or sharks for their fins. It always seems to happen in...

The Second European Workshop on Environmental Crime: Illegal Poisoning of Wildlife

19.12.2015

An Action Plan to prevent risk from poison-baits has been developed for adoption by the members of the ENEC during the II European Workshop on Environmental Crime, held in Barcelona on 6 th November 2015. The purpose of this action plan is to make recommendations on behalf of the European Network against Environmental Crime (ENEC) for the adoption of measures to...

New scientific publication reveals interesting facts on the diet of Egyptian Vultures in the Balkans

11.12.2015

New scientific publication of The Return of the Neophron LIFE+ project in the journal Bird Conservation International gives insight on the relationships between diet composition and diversity, and productivity and territory occupancy rate of Egyptian vultures on the Balkans. A prominent threat to European vultures has been sanitary regulations that banned the disposal...

Annual Awards for Biodiversity 2015

29.11.2015

The Annual Awards to Biodiversity for 2015 were presented on 25 November. The official ceremony gathered hundreds of nature lovers, representatives of business, media, and environmental organizations. This year the jury awarded also several special prizes. A winner of such award became Maria Salabasheva in the category "Best journalistic material related to the...

Presentation of The Return of the Neophron in Cape Town

27.11.2015

In November Steffen Oppel – Senior Research Biologist (RSPB) present the LIFE+ project “The Return of the Neophron” to students and professors at the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The presentation focused on the decline of the Egyptian vulture population in eastern Europe and the...

Conservationists warn Africa’s vultures are sliding towards extinction

10.11.2015

Six of Africa’s 11 vulture species – the continent’s largest and most recognizable birds of prey – are now at a higher risk of extinction, according to the latest assessment of birds carried out by BirdLife International for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The main causes of the drop in African vulture populations are thought to...