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Training seminar on the project “Pelican Way of LIFE”
© Svilen Cheshmedziev A training seminar was held in Lemos (Greece), near Prespa Lake, on June 22-23 as part of the "Pelican Way of LIFE" project. The workshop is specially organized for experts from Albania, Northern Macedonia, Montenegro, and Turkey. The aim of the...
The first specialized course in Bulgaria for qualification and capacity building of state institutions against the use of poisons in the wild was held
© Dobromir Dobrev In the period June 22-24, 2022, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB), the Thrakia University of Stara Zagora, the General Directorate of the National Police and the Green Balkans Wildlife Rescue Center - Stara Zagora conducted a...
Europe’s largest vulture returns to Bulgaria’s wild Rhodope Mountains
© Kamen Kolarov Cinereous vultures – Europe’s largest and heaviest raptor – have been brought back to Southern Bulgaria, with 17 birds from Spain having been transported all the way to the rewilding landscape of the Rhodope Mountains. The vultures are being...
135 km of electric lines surveyed by BSPB team in May
In May, a team from BSPB (Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds) conducted the first surveys of electric lines in the region of Burgas lakes. Our colleagues inspected approximately 135 km of medium voltage lines (20 kV) to investigate the mortality of birds...
BSPB will celebrate the Eagle Day at the National Museum of Natural History
White-tailed Eagle and Golden Eagle © Bogdan Boev On June 27 (Monday) at the National Museum of Natural History, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) will celebrate National Eagle Day. We will introduce the guests of the museum to interesting facts...
A new scientific publication presents the results of a five-year study of the reinforced last colony of European souslik in the Natura 2000 area “Zapadna Strandzha”
© Dimitar Gradinarov A new scientific paper, published in June 2022, presents the results of five-year monitoring of a reinforced colony of European souslik (Spermophilus citellus) in the Natura 2000 protected area "Zapadna Strandzha” Special Protection Area...
Sustainable Migratory Waterbird Harvesting and Conservation workshop in Romania
© Nikolai Petkov From 9 to 10 June in Bucharest took place the last workshop based on the AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 5 – Guidelines on Sustainable Harvest of Migratory Waterbirds. At the workshop, our two trainers Neils Kaintstrup of the University of Aarhus in...
Help us to race the time and save the Egyptian vulture
© Svetoslav Spasov The speed with which the Egyptian vulture is disappearing and the work to eliminate the main threats throughout its migration path are in an unequal battle. For the last 40 years, the population of the species in Bulgaria has decreased by 83%! Today...
Six Egyptian Vultures were released in Bulgaria as part of the population reinforcement
© Volen Arkumarev Six more Egyptian Vultures were released this week in the Eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria in the frame of the reinforcement program for the species led by BSPB. They were released through the delayed release method which proved to be the most successful...
An online camera reveals the secret life of the Scops Owl
For the second year in a row оnline live surveillance camera installed in a nest of Scops Owl connect us to the life of these secret birds. The two cameras are the only of their kind in the world and transmit from the entrance of the nest and inside it. Only a few...
The final round of the National Olympiad in Ornithology was held
© Ventsi Georgiev The final round of the National Ornithology Olympiad took place on May 29th (Sunday). 22 students from a total of 117 from 5th to 8th grade in schools from different cities of the country were ranked for it. The final round was held at the Nature...
A baby Egyptian vulture hatched in the nest with the online video camera in Bulgaria
On the International Children's Day - June 1, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) invites everyone to peek into a nest with a newly hatched chick of one of the rarest and most threatened birds on the planet - the Egyptian vulture. The site is...