Five juvenile Imperial Eagles, aged about two months were tagged with satellite transmitters. Thanks to the state-of-the-art technology BSPB experts will know where the birds are and what happens to them. The transmitter tagging is carried out within the LIFE+ project „Save the raptors”, funded by the EU.

Lubo will be the name of one of the seven Imperial Eagles, which BSPB will tag with satellite transmitters after a few days. The eaglet was adopted by the online photo agency BulPhoto. The juvenile eagle was named Lubo after the name of one of the first and most famous photographers in the agency Lubomir Benkovski - Benji.

For the second consecutive year, Darik Radio will adopt one of the 7 Imperial Eagles, which BSPB will tag with satellite transmitters. The eagle will be named Darik the Second, since last year's bird was also named after the media.
The first private national radio - Darik supports for the second year LIFE+ project „Save the Raptors”. The media have pledged to follow the flight of Darik the Second and the other juvenile eagles in order to promote conservation efforts for protecting the globally threatened Imperial Eagle.
 

The most popular Bulgarian television bTV will symbolically adopt one of the 7 juvenile Imperial Eagles, which will be tagged with satellite transmitters. The television supports BSPB’s project LIFE + “Save the Raptors” for the second consecutive year. Last summer bTV adopted the young Boril and followed his flight. The bird reached Saudi Arabia but there, unfortunately its transmitter stopped to release data. Researchers hope that the devise has fallen or been damaged and the bird is alive.

The leading Internet portal in Bulgaria Dir.bg supported the LIFE + project “Save the Raptors”. The popular media will symbolically adopt a young eaglet, which BSPB will tag with a satellite transmitter in early July. Dir.bg will give a name of the bird as well. It will be called with the nice Bulgarian name Drago.

A new website launched on 14th June by Wetlands International, BirdLife International and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) reveals major gaps in the protection of many critical sites used by migratory waterbirds across Africa the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia. A staggering one-third of the critical sites (representing over 1,000 individual sites within the network) are entirely unprotected, putting the future of many migratory waterbirds at risk.
The new ‘Critical Site Network (CSN)’ Tool provides comprehensive information on 294 waterbird species from 3,020 sites. It is designed to make information easily available on the most important sites for migratory waterbirds, both at the national and international level.