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EUROBATS sponsors Belarusian bats

EUROBATS sponsors Belarusian bats December 10, 2012 The EUROBATS Projects Initiative (EPI) sponsors the project ‘Bats in Belarus’ with a subsidy of € 2,500.00. With this subsidy we can produce a leaflet about bats and forest management, one of the goals of this project. The leaflet will be based on existing leaflets in English and […]

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Meeting Bird survey Bulgaria

Meeting Bird survey Bulgaria October 30, 2012 Last weekend some of the participants of the bird census in SE Europe in spring 2012 tested the web based data input module. The module makes it easier to add the results of bird counts at points to a database on the world wide web. You can either

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Meeting Bird survey Bulgaria

Meeting Bird survey Bulgaria October 30, 2012 In the past three years 25 people took part in the bird surveys in SE Europe. Not only in the Eastern Rhodopes, but also in other parts of the country, particularly along the Black Sea coast. So it was time to come together and share some experiences. A

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Handbuch der Fledermäuse Europas

Handbuch der Fledermäuse Europas June 20, 2012 For the project Bats in Belarus we received an English and a German version of the text-book about European bats: ‘Handbuch der Fledermäuse Europas’. It is a very thick book (400 pages) and describes all the species in Europe and the northwest of Africa. It is illustrated with

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Donation by ZWG Zuid-Holland

Donation by ZWG Zuid-Holland February 27, 2012 The Dutch Mammal Working Group Zuid-Holland donates € 2,000.- for the project Bats and forest management in Belarus. We use the money to buy bat detectors for the Belarusian bat workers. The goal of the project is to get more people working on bats and their conservation in Belarus and

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Donation by BirdLife Netherlands

Donation by BirdLife Netherlands February 23, 2012 BirdLife Netherlands and the National Postcode Lotery donate € 3.000,- for the project ‘Bird survey in Southeast Europe’. The money comes from the Kingfisher Fund (IJsvogelfonds). This fund was established in 2011 by BirdLife Netherlands, with financial support of the National Postcode Lotery, to help small bird working

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Birds in Bulgaria stole my heart

Birds in Bulgaria stole my heart December 25, 2011 In spring 2011 Gerard ter Heijne took part in the bird count in the Eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria. In the members magazine of the Dutch Birding group Arnhem, Vlerk, he wrote full of enthusiasm about his experiences. Download the article as PDF-file (in Dutch) here. Project: Bird

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Request to EC for Romanian carnivores

Request to EC for Romanian carnivores April 18, 2011 The experts that met in february in Romania to study the possibilities for connectivity measures along the Deva-Lugoj motorway sent a letter to the European Commission urging her to impose proper connectivity mitigation measures for the Lugoj–Deva motorway project. The motorway will intersect an extremely important

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Field visit to Deva-Lugoj motorway

Field visit to Deva-Lugoj motorway February 2, 2011 Initiated by The Habitat Foundationa a group of specialists from Greece, Croatia, Bulgaria and the Netherlands visited the area in Romania where the new motorway between Deva and Lugoj is planned. They discussed the possibilities for tunnels and ecoducts for the threatened large carnivores. People from the

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