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Giving hope for the Egyptian vultures on the Balkans – fundraising campaign 2015

17.07.2015

The Egyptian vulture - the bird species which population declines most rapidly among birds of prey in Europe, needs your support one more time! Help us by a donation and thus will help us to realize one of the most important conservation activities – the nest guarding. The guarding of the nests reduces the risk of disturbance and poaching during the incubation...

Workshop to secure the survival of Egyptian Vulture populations in the Balkans, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and along its migration flyway was held in Sofia, Bulgaria

13.07.2015

A workshop dedicated to the conservation of the globally threatened Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) was held from 5 to 8 July 2015 in Bulgaria. The main goal was to develop an International Egyptian Vulture Flyway Action Plan to secure the survival of the Balkan, Caucasian and Central Asian populations, including along the flyway and in the wintering grounds. The...

Custom officers in Attica are trained to fight illegal trade of wildlife

08.07.2015

On the 24th of June, HOS/BirdLife Greece in collaboration with the UK Border Force and the RSPB, organized a seminar on the matter of CITES and the illegal trading of wildlife. The seminar was held at the Athens International Airport (AIA) and aimed to inform the Custom officers of the different Custom Services in the region of Attica on this important but little-known...

How we celebrated the European Green Week

05.07.2015

On the occasion of the European Green Week in many countries in May and June were organized series of events dedicated to nature and biodiversity. In Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds ( BSPB ) also included initiatives in several towns and villages in the country in both its Nature Conservation Centers "Poda" near Burgas and "Eastern Rhodopy"...

Meteora was full of Egyptian vultures once more!

26.06.2015

Summer holidays are here and as a farewell, the teachers and pupils of the 4th Primary School of Kalampaka prepared a wonderful event to honor Meteora’s rarest resident: the Egyptian vulture! The third and the fourth grade (that had implemented the Hellenic Ornithological Society’s Environmental Education Programme for the Egyptian vulture) dedicated their...

What has the monitoring of occupied territories of Egyptian vultures in Bulgaria and Greece showed in 2015

25.06.2015

The result of the monitoring in Bulgaria has brought good news to the team of "The Return of the Neophron". The number of occupied territories is 28, as 27 of them are occupied by pairs – with 3 pairs more than the last year (two new pairs in North Bulgaria and one in the Eastern Rhodopes). Besides the increased numbers of pairs, this year we have also observed an...