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 …
25 Participants at bat workshop in Belarus July 14, 2012 From 2 to 7 July a workshop about bat research and conservation took place in Belarus. Actually it was a seminar of one day and a workshop of three days. The seminar was held at the Academy of Science in Minsk. Students biology and forestry …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Report bird counts 2010 published January 19, 2011 The report about the bird survey in the Eastern Rhodopes in spring 2010 is published. It contains the results of the first counts for the project ‘Bird survey in Bulgaria’. In May 2010 in a time span of two weeks counts were carried out at 52 points. …
Het is tijd voor #Natuurherstel 25 maart 2023 Momenteel verkeert de natuur in Europa in een erbarmelijke staat. Het gevolg is dat elke activiteit die ook maar het geringste negatieve effect op de kwaliteit van de natuur heeft, haar componenten, dat wil zeggen planten, dieren, schimmels enz., dichter bij uitsterven brengt. Aangezien we allemaal afhankelijk …
