Telescopes for guards of National Park Divjakë-Karavasta, Albania May 20, 2020 Divjakë-Karavasta National Park is a lagoon on the coast of Albania with one of the last breeding colonies of the Dalmatian Pelican in Albania. In the late 20th century, the colony fared poorly due to the drop in water levels in the lagoon. From …
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National species action plan for the Mouse-tailed dormouse November 14, 2019 The Mouse-tailed dormouse is one of the rarest mammals in the Western Palearctic. Because of its small distribution area it is categorised as vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. It is also include in Annex IV of the EU Habitats Directive. Because the main …
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Balkan Mammal Network May 20, 2018 On 10-12 May 2018 28 representatives of nature research and conservation institutes came together in Bankya, Bulgaria to talk about the conservation of mammals on the Balkans. They represented 8 countries in Southeast Europe: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece, and Romania. The meeting was part …
European Mammals on MAps (EMMA2) April 26, 2018 EMMA2 aims at revealing the distribution of 264 mammal species in an area of 11.59 million km2, from the Atlantic coast in the West to the Ural mountains in the East and from Svalbard in the North to the Mediterranean sea in the South. It is a …
Harmonising Green with Grey Infrastructure in SE Europe October 31, 2017 A workshop about nature and traffic has taken place in Faget, Romania, on 25, 26 and 27 October 2017. The main issue was the interaction between green and grey infrastructure. The location Faget wasn’t chosen accidentally. The recently constructed motorway A1 that connects Bucharest …
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Seven years of bird counts in SE Europe April 17, 2017 Henk Sierdsema, the co-ordinator of the project ‘Bird counts in Bulgaria’ made an overview of the results of seven years (2010 until 2016) of bird counts in Bulgaria and Macedonia. For every bird species he created a map with the locations where counts were …
Strong increase continues February 26, 2016 The first Songthrushes and Chiffchaffs are heard singing again. Spring is approaching. Time to make plans for the coming bird counts in Southeastern Europe. Last year many people carried out bird counts, more than the year before. The number of point counts in Bulgaria and neighbouring countries increases since …
Brochure Bats and forestry ready November 29, 2014 In the summer of 2012 The Habitat Foundation organised a workshop about bat research and the use of bat detectors in collaboration with APB BirdLife Belarus. As a follow up of the workshop we decided to make a brochure about bats and forestry. For the conservation of …
Strong increase birding records since 2010 October 26, 2014 Many people have carried out bird counts in Bulgaria this year. As far as we know seven groups travelled to Bulgaria and carried out counts. Already many counts (186!) have been uploaded to the website pc.trektellen.nl. A very good result. Encouraging is that other bird watchers, …
English version of manual bird counts April 20, 2014 It already existed in Dutch, but now it is also available in English: the manual for the bird counts in Bulgaria. It explains the method used for the point counts and the use of the website pc.trektellen.nl for uploading the results of the counts. The manual …
