December 7, 2025 We are proud to announce the first Small Mammal Conservation Conference in Europe. The conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in September 2026. It is one of the activities of the LIFE for Falcons project. Sign up for our newsletter, and we will let you know when the conference website is […]
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Meet Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse September 20, 2025 One of Europe’s rarest mammals comes to Topolovgrad on October 18. On that day, The Habitat Foundation will be at the Imperial Eagle festival and present Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse. Topolovgrad lies in the heart of the Sakar mountain range in southeast Bulgaria, the only region where a healthy
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For the first time in the world, captive-bred Dobrudzha hamsters are released into the wild June 9, 2025 A team from the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBER-BAS), the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and The Habitat Foundation has released captive-bred Dobrudzha hamsters (Mesocricetus newtoni) into
December 3, 2024 After more than two years of intensive work aimed at studying the distribution and biology of the endangered Romanian hamster, scientists from the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBER-BAS) have successfully bred four generations of this rare species. Breeding Romanian hamsters in captivity is part
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August 10, 2024 For the second year in a row, wildfires destroyed habitat of Roach’s Mouse-tailed Dormouse in Bulgaria. It happened in 2023 also, and the effect was devastating. Nedko Nedyalkov, who has studied this population already for several years, found only two young mouse-talied dormice after the 2023 fires. The situation after the 2024
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The Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (UNCG) developed a web tool to extract biodiversity data from the world’s largest database with distribution data of organisms, GBIF. It facilitates the use of these data for nature conservation and impact assesments of developments in natural, urban and rural areas.
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Wildlife cameras for Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse Since 2017, The Habitat Foundation supports the research of Nedko Nedyalkov on Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse. It is one of the five dormice that live in Europe but it is very rare. It only occurs in the most southeastern part of Europe, where Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey meet. Currently, only
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November 27, 2023 On November 27, 2023, the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (UNCG) presented the GBIF Biodiversity Viewer. The presentation can be reviewed here: https://www.facebook.com/UkrainianNatureConservationGroup/videos/1741874349558127/ The GBIF Biodiversity Viewer extracts species occurrence data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), which provides the largest amount of well-documented data on species in the world. The viewer
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October 16, 2023 Within the LIFE for Falcons project, Green Balkans and the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) organised the International Saker Falcon Conference in Stara Zagora (Bulgaria) from 12 until 15 October 2023. At the conference species experts shared their experiences in Saker Falcon conservation and research. Over 50 participants from
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Wildfire destroys Mouse-tailed dormouse habitat August 28, 2023 Like many other southern European countries, Bulgaria experienced several wildfires this summer. One of them raged through the only known habitat of Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse in Bulgaria. Nedko Nedyalkov, who studies this population already for several years, was in shock when he visited the area in August.
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