The future of Vulture in Balkans: tackling threats and building network opportunities

14.12.2018

“The future of Vulture in Balkans: tackling threats and building network opportunities” International workshop was held on the 07-09 December 2018 in Messolonghi, Greece. Representatives of governmental and municipal institutions along with NGO and local community members from different Balkan countries took part.

Balkan Anti-Poisoning Project: Country in Focus - FYR Macedonia

13.12.2018

After publishing a groundbreaking study on the use of illegal wildlife poisoning across the Balkan Peninsula our colleagues from the Vulture conservation foundation investigate the historic and current situation of the use of poison in each of the countries involved in the Balkan Anti-Poisoning Project . Today the Country in Focus is FYR Macedonia.

Left without home! When a bat colony remains homeless in the middle of the winter…

12.12.2018

Yesterday we received a signal in our office from the Regional inspectorate of environment and water, submitted to them by a citizen from Kazanlak.

Only 135 Euro left and we can have a new beginning

11.12.2018

We have raised 865 Euro for the moment.

Monitoring of wintering birds at Durankulak Lake

10.12.2018

On 5 and 6 December 2018, Green Balkans experts have conducted monitoring of wintering birds in Durankulak Lake.

After keeping you in the dark for quite some time we are back with more information on the three tireless travelers - Riga, Boyan and Ostrava

07.12.2018

Riga moved back from the island of Kithira through Peloponnese and is currently in the area of Messolonghi and Akarnanika Mts (SW mainland Greece) together with some local and wintering Griffon Vultures.

Balkan Anti-Poisoning Project: Country in Focus - Croatia

07.12.2018

Last week our colleagues from the Vulture Conservation Foundation published a groundbreaking study on the use of illegal wildlife poisoning across the Balkan Peninsula that found around 2,300 vultures have died over the last 20 years due to this practice. As part of the Balkan Anti-Poisoning The project includes investigation of the historic and current situation of the use of poison in each of the countries involved. Today the Country in Focus is Croatia.

Bearded vulture Mia has become the first vulture in the world to have a artificial limb

04.12.2018

In the latest in a series sharing some of the veterinary cases in bearded vultures such as the recent case of amputation in wild birds and Rin Ran's cataract operation we are sharing the story of Mia. Due to an injury as a young chick, young bearded vulture Mia was left with a painful stump instead of a foot but thanks to pioneering surgery by a team of veterinary surgeons, she became the first bird in the world to have an artificial limb.

Samples were taken from four Egyptian Vultures for testing

03.12.2018

A team from Green Balkans' Wildlife Rehabilitation and Breeding Centre, part of the 'New Hope for the Egyptian Vulture' project (LIFE16 NAT/BG/000874), visited the Sofia Zoo last week.

New research review reveals the extent of lead contamination in wild vultures

03.12.2018

A newly published article in the journal Science of the Total Environment has reviewed 62 scientific articles from across the globe that have studied lead contamination in vultures and condors.

New VCF study estimates over 2,300 vultures have died as a result of being poisoned in the Balkan Peninsula over the last 20 years

30.11.2018

Published today, the Balkan Vultures Poison Study, reveals that over the last 20 years 465 vultures were documented to have died as a result of being poisoned in the whole of the Balkan Peninsula. However, with an estimated 20 percent of poisoning incidents ever discovered and reported, the authors put a conservative estimate of over 2,300 vultures poisoned in the Balkan Peninsula since 1998.

Bulgaria celebrated the GIS day 20th anniversary!

20.11.2018

Green Balkans was an official partner of the event. Nearly 700 representatives from over 150 organizations took part in the forum.

Giving Tuesday

19.11.2018

We are excited to participate in a truly wonderful initiative, a Black Friday consumerism antipode. Green Balkans is taking part in the Giving Tuesday initiative organized by the BCause Foundation, dedicated to the true moral values - those of donation, mutual help, and social causes!

Green Balkans’ representatives participated in the Annual Bearded Vulture Meeting

19.11.2018

In the mountain town of Cazorla, Andalusia, 140 specialists working for the Bearded Vulture conservation gathered on a three-day conference whose main theme was preserving this rarest vulture species in Europe.

Over 140 delegates have joined us for the Annual Bearded Vulture Meeting 2018 in Cazorla, Spain

15.11.2018

Up in the mountain town of Cazorla in Andalucia for the next three days over 140 people who work with bearded vultures have gathered together to discuss their work conserving Europe’s rarest vulture for our Annual Bearded Vulture Meeting.

Big news for young Ostrava

14.11.2018

After two of the three Black Vultures, released in Bulgaria as a part of the Bright Future for the Black Vulture LIFE project aiming to reintroduce the species in our country, started their long migratory journey, it was time for the youngest of the three - Ostrava to leave the nest.

The two youngsters, Boyan and Riga, are heading south once again

09.11.2018

After some days of calmness, while Riga was in the Akarnanika/Messolonghi area in Greece and Boyan in the Erzurum area in Turkey, both feeding together with local vultures, today both birds headed south once again.

The team of Green Balkans’ Wildlife rehabilitation and breeding center, participants in project “ Egyptian vulture New LIFE” (LIFE16 NAT/BG/000874), prepared for the winter

08.11.2018

The wall mount cabinet and the battery of the video surveillance cameras were dismounted from the adaptation aviary in Eastern Rhodope Mountains during the last few days.

Farewell to Lily…

07.11.2018

All the feathery, hairy and prickly patients of the Green Balkans’ Wildlife rehabilitation and breeding center are important and deserve to receive the best care.

What it means to maintain a breeding colony? The challenge to breed Saker falcons

07.11.2018

The team of the Green Balkans’ Wildlife rehabilitation and breeding center initiated the reintroduction of a species gone extinct from Bulgaria – the Saker falcon about ten years ago. The maintenance of a breeding colony is a process of establishing permanent relations between the individuals, which may take a long period of time and it requires taking into consideration of many important things.

Green BalkansFederation of nature conservation NGOs

News