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The website under the LIFE Safe Grid for Burgas project of EVN Bulgaria and BSPB is launched
The official website under the LIFE Safe Grid for Burgas project is launched. The project is carried out by Elektrorazpredelenie Yug (part of EVN) and the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB), and is funded by the LIFE programme of the EU. The...
Join the nest guarding campaign in Bulgaria 2022
© Emil Yordanov The summer of 2022 awaits its volunteers – guardians of Egyptian vultures’ nests in Bulgaria. The new generation is already here and in August will need help in its most vulnerable period - that of the first flight. Since 2013, more than 80 volunteers...
The fifth Southeastern European Pelican Census
The colony in Kalimok-Brushlen Protected Аrea, © Damyan Petkov The fifth international pelican census in Southeast Europe took place on May 14th. It aimed at gathering information about the number and distribution of the endangered species Pelecanus crispus (Dalmatian...
A record number of Griffon vultures hatched in the Eastern Rhodopes this spring
A record number of hatched vultures have hatched in the Eastern Rhodopes for the last more than 30 years - 76 young. For comparison, only a few years earlier, in 2016, 51 juveniles were hatched. This result shows the preservation of the positive trend in the...
Egyptian vulture in the focus of events in Bulgaria on the occasion of World Migratory Bird Day 2022
© Vladimir Dobrev On May 14, the international community celebrates World Migratory Bird Day. On the occasion of the day, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) focused on one of the most vulnerable migratory birds on the planet with a drastic...
Organizations from three continents gather in Bulgaria for an international meeting on the Egyptian vulture
© Michele Mendi, LIPU Between May 17th and 19th in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) is hosting an international meeting bringing together representatives of nature conservation organizations from Greece, Albania, Northern...
Three online video cameras connect us with the life of the Egyptian vultures in Bulgaria
For another year, the website www.LifeNeophron.eu is the place where everyone can experience in real-time the life of one of the rarest birds on the planet - the Egyptian vultures. There are three places from which the "wild cinema" broadcasts: the area of the town...
A new scientific publication examines the effect of changes in the habitat of the Imperial Eagle on the population of the species
Photo: © Márton Horváth A new scientific publication in the scientific journal Avian Research focuses on the effect of landscape alteration of the habitat of the globally endangered Imperial Eagle on the demographic structure of the species. Habitat transformation is...
Website of the project – Save Raptors.org – is now online
We are happy to announce that the website of the project LIFE for Falcons is ready and operational. The trilingual website will be the main repository of everything related to the project, its activities and achievements. What you will find in it The News section is...
Observe online the secret life of birds
In March we started the broadcasting of three nests of white stork families in the Samokov villages of Yarlovo and Dragushinovo. The camera, which was installed in 2017 in a stork's nest in the village of Yarlovo, broadcasts live at the following link:...
Vote now: LIFE RE-Vultures nominated for audience award
© Bogdan Boev Also, the LIFE RE-Vultures initiative will compete among the 12 finalists for the LIFE Citizens’ Prize. Vote now for LIFE RE-Vultures and support the recovery of vulture populations: https://www.lifeawards.eu/project/life-re-vultures/ Vultures play a...
An exhibition in Sofia presents the birds of Bulgaria
Eastern Rhodopes, © Svetoslav Spasov The Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) presents the exhibition "LIFE for the Birds of Bulgaria", which can be seen from April 29 to May 13 in the Open Air Gallery - National Palace of Culture, Cabana Cinema in...