BSPB train farmers how to apply for EU funding

09.02.2013

BSPB is holding information meetings for farmers in the regions of Sliven and South-Eastern Bulgaria. Their aim is to advice local farmers on the opportunities to apply for EU funding under the new Agri-environment Measure 214 activities. Meetings will be held in: · Kurdzhali on 7th of February 2013, Thursday, at 14:30 h, in the "Business Incubator" at...

From Addis Ababa to Afar and Amhara: a story about the vultures, people and Abissinian wilderness

01.02.2013

A two weeks training seminar about the study and conservation of one of the most endangered birds in the world - the Egyptian vulture - was held by our Project team in Ethiopia, in early January 2013. The event was attended by representatives of conservation organizations and authorities of Ethopia, Chad, Sudan, Djibouti and Somalia. The seminar was organized by the...

Svetlina is in Yemen

09.01.2013

Svetlina (Light) is one of the juvenile Egyptian vultures tagged with satellite transmitters last year under the project "The Return of the Neophron”. She seems to be adventurer and explorer, as she took a different path of migration , not like her “brothers” who are wintering in Africa. She reached the Southern parts of Yemen along the East...

The juvenile Egyptian vulture Arda died in Sudan

08.01.2013

On the 28th of December 2012 between 08:00 to 10:00 am, in southern Sudan, died Arda - a young Egyptian vulture tagged with satellite transmitter last year under the project "The Return of the Neophron". The place is about 70 kilometers North of the troubled area between Sudan and South Sudan. Arda remained in the area 10 days before her death. For more than a week, the...

Egyptian vulture training seminar will be held in Ethiopia

07.01.2013

During the period from 9th to 19th January 2013 the LIFE+ project „The Return of the Neophron“ experts will visit Africa with the mission to lead a training seminar to research and protect the wintering populations of the globally threatened Egyptian vulture.Last year 9 birds were tagged with satellite transmitters in Bulgaria and Greece and showed...

An unique on-line game about the life of the Egyptian vultures is coming

07.01.2013

Dear friends, only a month before the returning of Egyptian vultures from Africa you can expect a new interactive, on-line based game about the life of the Egyptian vulture . It is a free educational entertainment game aiming to tell the story of this globally threatened species, story about free will and adventures, full with threats and obstacles, love and...