{"id":18632,"date":"2022-08-02T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/?p=18632"},"modified":"2022-08-02T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:06:29","slug":"iber-team-mapped-successfully-romanian-hamster-colonies-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/iber-team-mapped-successfully-romanian-hamster-colonies-in-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"IBER team mapped successfully Romanian hamster colonies in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Yordan Koshev & Maria Kachamakova<\/em><\/p>\n

The IBER<\/a> team mapped donor colonies of the Romanian hamster instead of the hot weather and harsh conditions in July 2022. During the research holes were found and some individuals were captured. The hamsters were measured and photographed, their gender and age were identified and they were released back in the nature. After the designation of the colonies from which individuals have to be taken, we will implement the activities for capturing and breeding them in 2023.<\/p>\n

One of the activities of the project Life for Falcons<\/a> is mapping of the distribution of the Romanian hamster (Mesocricetus newtoni<\/em>) in Bulgaria. The goal is to designate certain donor colonies, from which to be captured individuals for the breeding program. Born in captivity animals will be released in the Natura 2000 protected areas, which will improve the conservation status of the species.<\/p>\n

The Romanian hamster is included in the Red book of Bulgaria as \u201cvulnerable\u201d and it is an extremely rare species \u2013 endemic for the European union. It is found only in Northern Bulgaria and Southeastern Romania. For the last 10 years there is information for only 6\u20137 individuals captured in Bulgaria. Now the findings, mapped by the IBER project team increase the scientific knowledge and widen the opportunities for the conservation of this species.<\/p>\n

\"Iordan \"Iordan<\/p>\n

The hamster typically lives in the agricultural lands and applying the eco-friendly agro-practic\u0435s is crucial for its survival, such as: prohibition of rodenticides; planting of permanent crops, such as lucerne; small parcels of diverse blocks of crops (wheats, sunflowers, corn) bordering landmarks.<\/p>\n

You can send information about the Romanian hamster in Bulgaria to bgsouslik@gmail.com (dr. Yordan Koshev) and maria.n.kachamakova@gmail.com (dr. Maria Kachakamkova)<\/p>\n

The project Securing the recovery of the endangered Saker Falcon in Bulgaria and Southern Romania (LIFE20 NAT\/BG\/001162) is of 5 years duration and has received funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Union.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Yordan Koshev & Maria Kachamakova The IBER team mapped donor colonies of the Romanian hamster instead of the hot weather and harsh conditions in July 2022. During the research holes were found and some individuals were captured. The hamsters were measured and photographed, their gender and age were identified and they were released back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":18622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-18632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bspb.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=18632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}