Meet Roach’s mouse-tailed dormouse

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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Dobrudja hamster (Mesocricetus newtoni) (Photo: Dimitar Gradinarov / BSPB)

For the first time in the world, captive-bred Dobrudzha Hamsters are released into the wild

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

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Wildfire in Sakar 2024 (Photo: Nedko Nedyalkov)_1

Again wildfires in Dormouse habitat

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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Nedko Nedyalkov with wildlife cameras - crop

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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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Announcement of the online presentation on 27th November 2023

Presenting the GBIF Biodiversity Viewer

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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Participants of the Saker falcon conference okt23 (BSPB)

Saker Falcon Conference

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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Montenegro (Photo: Wauter Ralph Kolk)

Batloggers for Wildlife Montenegro

Batloggers for Wildlife Montenegro September 1, 2023 The Habitat Foundation supports nature researchers and conservationists in Eastern Europe. The support can be simple but nevertheless important. One of the organisations supported is NGO Wildlife Montenegro. Currently, Wildlife Montenegro is conducting a survey on mammals in an area where a wind farm is planned. Bats are

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