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BSPB and Sofia Zoo in a joint event for children led by a volunteer from Puerto Rico

06.06.2015

On 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...

Tagging of one of the last remaining Egyptian vultures in the Balkans

04.06.2015

Who 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...

Green Week 2015 Nature – our health, our wealth

02.06.2015

The 2015 edition of Green Week, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy, will take place from 3 to 5 June at The Egg Conference Centre, Rue Bara, in Brussels. The theme will be nature and biodiversity. Nature is vital for our health and our wealth. We depend on it for the food, energy, raw materials, air and water that make life possible and drive the...

The film “Life for the Egyptian vulture – international collaboration” won the second prize in the Environmental Film Festival of Albania

28.05.2015

The film “Life for the Egyptian vulture – international collaboration” , created within the LIFE+ project “The Return of the Neophron”, won the second prize in the Environmental Film Festival of Albania ( EFFA ). EFFA is organized by the Albanian Ministry of Environment and the Delegation of the European Union to Albania, in collaboration...

Today we celebrate the European Natura 2000 Day

21.05.2015

21st of May is the European Natura 2000 Day . Despite its 20 year history and its ecological, social and economic importance, the Natura 2000 network is known only by few citizens. This lack of awareness by citizens is one of the main problems of the Natura 2000 Network. The goal of the network is to maintain the biological diversity hand in hand with regional sustainable...

The World Migratory Bird Day was celebrated with events dedicated to the Egyptian vulture

15.05.2015

This weekend (9 and 10 May) we celebrated for the 10th time the World Migratory Bird Day. The event is one of the largest campaigns to raise awareness of migratory birds. In Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds ( BSPB ) within the LIFE + project "The Return of the Neophron" organized a number of events dedicated to one of the most rare and endangered...