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 …
Four years of bird counts in Bulgaria March 23, 2014 Henk Sierdsema, the co-ordinator of the project ‘Bird counts in Bulgaria’ made an overview of the results of four years (2010 until 2013) of bird counts in the Eastern Rhodopes. For every bird species he created a map with the locations where counts were carried …
Leaflet Bats in Belarus ready August 21, 2013 Belarussian Forestry is in the process of FSC certification, with over 70% of the forests being managed according to FSC criteria. This implies that the foresters take the well being of wildlife into account in their management and exploitation of the forests. Bats are species that are …
Belarussian ministry grants permission to print leaflet July 14, 2013 As a follow-up of the workshop about bat research and conservation in Belarus in 2012 Aliaksei Shpak of the Zoological Institute in Minsk translated the leaflet about bats and forest of EUROBATS in Belarussian. But, before printing and disseminating this leaflet in Belarus you need …
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