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Celebrating Natura 2000 Day with walks in the nature

May 16, 2023

On the 21st of May Bulgarian Society for the Protection of birds invites everyone who loves nature to their walks in protected areas of the network near three Bulgarian cities: Sofia, Plovdiv and Haskovo.

Participants from Bulgarian institutions graduated from the Wildlife Crime Academy

May 12, 2023

More than 40 participants from 9 European countries have graduated in the third and final grade of the Wildlife Crime Academy which took place in Malaga, Spain in April 2023. 
 

Green Balkans team presented the project in an event in Santa Marina Holiday Village in Sozopol

May 09, 2023

The Green Balkans team participated in the event, organized in Santa Marina Holiday Village in Sozopol in the beginning of May.

A new nesting territory of the Saker Falcon in Bulgaria has been found

May 05, 2023

Weeks of resilient observations gave results and we found another Saker Falcon pair during this nesting season.

 

Life for Falcons project was presented to the international hunter’s community

May 04, 2023

On 26^th of April in Sofia was held International conference of Restoring the small wild game in the agricultural lands in Europe – part of the forum of the members of FACE.

Еxperts from LIFE for Falcons project took part in a training on wildlife crimes investigation

May 03, 2023

Dimitar Gradinarov from BSPB and Ivaylo Klisurov from Green Balkans took part in the training, organized by WWF-Bulgaria and the Association of Prosecutors in Bulgaria on the Identification and investigation of wildlife crimes. Case studies.

Registration for participation in the International Saker Falcon conference is open

May 01, 2023

The registration form for the International Saker Falcon conference is now open.

International Saker Falcon conference in Bulgaria in 2023

Apr. 13, 2023

„LIFE for Falcons“ project team is delighted to announce the International Saker Falcon conference which will be held in Bulgaria this autumn. 
 

New sector Crimes against nature at MI has been constituted

Apr. 12, 2023

At the end of February 2023 a new sector Crimes against nature in the Economy police department at the National Police Service has been created.

New sites of Romanian hamster in Bulgaria were mapped by IBER experts

Apr. 06, 2023

In March dr. Yordan Koshev and dr. Maria Kachamakova from IBER-BAS with the help of Yasen Gensuzov, student in the Faculty of Biology (SU St. Kliment Ochridski) successfully proceeded with the activities of mapping the hamster, part of the project “Life for Falcons”.
 

SOR surveyed over 200 km of powerlines in Southeastern Romania

Mar 21, 2023

In October and November 2022 SOR’s team verified all medium voltage power lines found in a 10 km radius of known occupied Saker Falcon nests in Southeastern Romania. 
 

The monitoring of the Saker falcon in Bulgaria is underway

Mar 02, 2023

Experts from BSPB and Green Balkans are continuing the monitoring of the Saker falcon’s population in Bulgaria. The team is revising not only the known locations of the species but also potential new territories and historical sites. The aim of this activity is to determine the number of occupied breeding territories and their breeding status. Other raptor species are also recorded e.g. Imperial eagles, Peregrine falcons, Long-legged buzzards and Golden eagles. 
 

First results of the study on the attitude of pigeon fanciers towards birds of prey

Mar 01, 2023

In 2022 in the frame of “LIFEforFalcons” project BSPB started a research aiming to study the conflict between pigeon fanciers and birds of prey and to identify good practices for reducing the impact of raptor attacks on homing pigeons. BSPB signed MoUs with 4 pigeon fancier’s clubs in the country. 

BSPB and Green Balkans took part in the annual Hungarian Raptor Conservation Conference

Feb. 03, 2023

Raptor experts from BSPB and Green Balkans took part in the Hungarian Raptor Conservation Conference and the PannonEagle LIFE project closing conference that were held in Hungary in late January. The conferences took place in the town of Jaszbereny and gathered experts on raptor conservation from Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Albania, Greece and Bulgaria.

Help us save the European ground squirrel by filling in the data for the assessments of pressure on Natura 2000 protected areas

Jan. 20, 2023

As part of the activities of the project Life for Falcons the Bulgarian Society for the protection of birds aims to analyze and assess the risk of destruction of the souslik colonies threatened by investment projects.

Falcon forest will grow near Natura 2000 protected area Kamenski bair

Dec. 19, 2022

The end of the last week marked the beginning of the Falcon Forest, started by one of the partners in the Life for Falcons project - Green Balkans.

Life for Falcons project took part in the event of the Bulgarian Falconry Union

Dec. 06, 2022

For a second year in a row the Green Balkans team, part of the project Life for Falcons took part in the event Falcon race. 
 

Life for Falcons project was presented at the seminar of the hunting and fishing union Razgrad

Nov. 23, 2022

Hunting and fishing union Razgrad hosted a meeting with the team of the Life for Falcons project on 22nd of November. The first presentation of the project in front of the hunters community was a month ago in Stara Zagora and it aroused great interest.|

A Saker Falcon seminar gathered hunters from the Union of hunters and anglers in Bulgaria

Oct. 24, 2022

On 20th of October the Union of hunters and anglers in Bulgaria has organized a seminar, dedicated to the Saker Falcon and the activities of the Life for Falcon project. 
 

Life for Falcons Project team celebrated World Migratory Bird day at the Sofia Zoo

Oct. 11, 2022

Bulgarian society for the protection of birds's team for the project Life for Falcons celebrated the World Migratory Bird day in 8th of October together with the Sofia Zoo. We focused our attention on two iconic endangered species – the Egyptian vulture and the Saker falcon.