Romania

Young Romanian hamsters bred in captivity (Photo: Yassen Gensuzov / IBER)

Endemic Romanian hamster successfully bred in captivity

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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Lynx (Lynx lynx (Photo: Rollin Verlinde / Vilda)

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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