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Experts from BSPB visited Armenia to exchange experience on raptor conservation

Aug. 20, 2024

In July BSPB, FPWC/BirdLife Armenia and SABUKO/BirdLife Georgia held a joint expedition to study raptors in the Vayots Dzor region of Armenia.

New Study Highlights Challenges and Solutions for Racing Pigeon Losses Due to Raptors in Bulgaria

Aug. 14, 2024

The team of BSPB completed a study aimed to assess pigeon losses due to birds of prey in Bulgaria, identify areas with high risks of raptor attacks and collisions with powerlines, and suggest mitigation measures.

The Hunter’s guide, published within the Life for Falcons project was presented to the hunters of HFU Asenovgrad

Aug. 13, 2024

In April the UHAB team presented the pocket edition of the Hunter’s guide in front of nearly 80 hunters from HFU Asenovgrad.
 

Life for Falcons project was presented in front of the hunters and anglers in Burgas

Aug. 06, 2024

On the 17th of May Union of Hunters and anglers Lebed – Burgas was a host of the seminar for presenting the Life for Falcons project.

Team of the project Life for Falcons and representatives of a hunting party released mallards near Zemlen

Aug. 01, 2024

Green Balkans team, part of the project Life for Falcon together with representatives of the hunting party of Kolarovo village released 14 mallards in the vicinity of Zemlen.
 

Green Balkans presented Life for Falcons project at Uzana Poliana Fest

Jul 24, 2024

From 19th till 21st of July Green Balkans project team was part or the green ideas festival – Uzana Poliana Fest.
 

The sixth Saker falcon festival was held in Malko Kadievo

Jul 23, 2024

At the end of the last week Green Balkans project team partnering with the Community Center Mitio Stanev – 1929 organized and held the Sixth Saker falcon festival.
 

Sousliks relocated in Sakar have made a new colony

Jun 25, 2024

At the end of March experts from the BSPB team from Life for Falcons project monitored the status of the sousliks, relocated last year from Maglizh in Sakar.

3 confirmed Saker falcon pairs nest in Bulgaria this year

Jun 11, 2024

Green Balkans and BSPB teams from the Life for Falcons project monitor precisely of the known so far nests of wild Saker falcons from early spring till late autumn.

New nest boxes for the Saker falcons were installed in Dobrogea

May 22, 2024

With the arrival of spring, the project partners from Romanian Ornithological Society began a new action from the conservation plan of the South-Romanian Saker falcon population.

Meeting the еndangered souslik in the Natura 2000 Day

May 21, 2024

On 21st of May we celebrate the Natura 2000 Day.
 

Infoboards about the Saker falcon conservation installed in Romania

May 15, 2024

On 11th of April 2024, SOR team install the infoboards in Adamclisi and Saraiu, dedicated to the Saker falson and the Life for falcons project.

Green Balkans team presented the activities of the project in front of the future hunters from Stara Zagora and the region

Apr. 10, 2024

This March Green Balkans team working on the Life for Falcons project presented the activities within its framework in front of the coming hunters from Stara Zagora and the region.

Green Balkans team of the project found a new Saker falcon pair in Bulgaria

Mar 26, 2024

In march 2024 experts from the Green Balkans "Life for Falcons" team, found a young bird, released by them last year in the wild.

Green Balkans team presented the Life for Falcons project on Agra Exhibition in Plovdiv

Feb. 26, 2024

On 20th and 21st of February Green Balkans team of the project took part of the Agricultural Exhibition AGRA, which was held in Plovdiv.
 

Young Saker Falcon has been observed by the Green Balkans team and volunteers

Feb. 14, 2024

Last month the Saker falcon project team from Green Balkans observed several times a young bird from the species.
 

Two Saker Falcons were sighted on New Year's Eve!

Jan. 04, 2024

On the very eve of the new year, the Green Balkans field team of "Life for Falcons" project recorded an exciting observation.

Saker Falcon Project field work results presented at the XIV Annual Monitoring Meeting in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Dec. 22, 2023

On the 11th of November 2023 the XIV. Annual Monitoring Meeting took place in Cluj. After an interruption of two years, the event organized by the Romanian Ornithological Society in partnership with the Milvus Group Association came back to the city where this tradition was born.
 

Life for Falcons team from Green Balkans and volunteers exchanged experience with colleagues from Austria and Czech Republic

Dec. 13, 2023

Members of the Green Balkans’s Wildlife Rescue Breeding Center visited seven Breeding centers in Czeck Republic and Austria to exchange experience with their colleagues in the area of fostering, breeding and releasing into the wild birds of prey hatched in captivity.
 

New observation of a Saker Falcon in the wild

Dec. 11, 2023

Last week during one of the regular monitorings the field team of Green Balkans, part of "Life for Falcons" project, registered a new observation of a Saker Falcon in Bulgaria!