The International Vulture Awareness Day 2013

11.09.2013

More than one hundred people visited Nature Conservation center “Eastern Rhodopes” to celebrate the International Vulture Awareness Day (IVAD). The interest of the small kids and their parents was aroused by the free film screenings and lectures which presented the life of vultures, threats they face and the undertaken conservation efforts. Armed with rubbers,...

Waiting for the autumn migration of Egyptian Vultures

03.09.2013

A joint research of BSPB, Doga Dernegi and RSPB for Egyptian Vultures migration route identification across Turkey began on August 28. After a few days spent in searching for a suitable monitoring site, the team settled down near Osmaniye city. The site is located on a high hill in the middle of a low plain and is a great spot from where to track the migration. After...

Egyptian vulture migration has started!

03.09.2013

Berenice woke up on the 30 th of August and decided that the time had come to "leave the nest". The waypoints we had received the previous days from her satellite transmitter already indicated signs of restlessness. So last Friday she made up her mind and started the long and perilous trip that will take her from Meteora, Greece, all the way south of the Sahara to what...

Free film screenings, lectures and games for the International Vulture Awareness Day

02.09.2013

This Saturday (07.09) the world is going to celebrate the International vulture awareness day. This year Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds/Birdlife Bulgaria will take part in the initiative giving opportunity for many people to get in touch with the exciting and fascinating world of vultures. On the 7th September at 10 o`clock Nature and Conservation center...

The fair in Rhodope Mountain, the opportunity to talk about the Egyptian vulture

21.08.2013

As every summer time, on 18th of August, the WWF team participates in a fair in place called Chilia which is close to Greek and Bulgarian border. Residents of Rhodope mountain villages, from both Bulgaria and Greece, meet here to celebrate some traditional customs inherited from their forefathers. Most of them are related to the nature, being farmers or livestock breeders....

Satellites will follow the Egyptian vultures from FYROM and Albania

19.08.2013

In the beginning of August 2013, two Egyptian vulture chicks from FYROM and one from Albania were tagged with satellite transmitters under the LIFE+ project “The Return of the Neophron”. Tagging in Macedonia was made from the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds ( BSPB ) and the Macedonian Ecological Society ( MES ). The marked...