The long-term collection of data for photo-identification of dolphins has yielded results
17.02.2020Eight years of work and data collection from Green Balkans' staff and volunteers for photo-identification of dolphins...
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And there it goes! The second Griffon vulture egg!
17.02.2020
The Griffon vultures at the Green Balkans' Wildlife rehabilitation and breeding center laid their second egg for this breeding season!
Vulture winter wonderland in the ‘Sinite kamani’ Nature Park
17.02.2020
Despite the hard winter conditions the ‘Bright Future for the Black Vulture’ project team continues their work at the reintroduction sites.
Green Balkans and RIEW – Plovdiv celebrated the World Wetlands Day
14.02.2020
To celebrate the World Wetlands Day we organized an open field lesson along the Maritsa river on the 13 February 2020.
The Green Balkans team celebrated the St Haralampii day along with the ‘Sun ray’ eco school
12.02.2020
The Green Balkans team joined the St Haralampii Day celebrations along with the ‘Sun ray’ eco school on the 10 February, celebrating the saint, patron of health, bees and honey, and of all beekeepers.
Monitoring of wintering geese
12.02.2020
A full tour of the wintering grounds of the endangered Red-breasted goose in Bulgaria was carried out by the Green Balkans team in the period February 8-11.
Presentation of the Rescue Centre at the Regional Natural History Museum of Plovdiv
05.02.2020Last week a team of the Wildlife and Breeding Rescue Centre and some volunteers gave a presentation and told about its activities and mission. Some of our stationary inhabitants came to help – Misho the Common Buzzard, Chara the Tawny Owl, Vladko the Kestrel and Blaga the Little Owl.
Monitoring of wintering birds at Burgas wetlands
03.02.2020
We have celebrated the World Wetlands Day with monitoring of wintering geese in the largest wetland complex in Bulgaria – Burgas Lakes.
Green Balkans is celebrating the World Wetlands Day
02.02.2020See how and where you can get involved in celebrating this significant ecological date.
February – Month of the Red-breasted Goose
01.02.2020The Red-breasted Goose is included in a number of national and international conservation regulations
Restoring Bearded Vulture populations in nature requires help from zoos
31.01.2020
The past few decades have been time of coordinated effort for the reintroduction of Bearded Vultures to their former range across Europe.
The Amazon Has Lost More Than Ten Million Football Fields of Forest in a Decade
30.01.2020Right now, every minute, over three football fields of Amazon rainforest are being lost
An artificial nest for Saker Falcons was placed!
29.01.2020Today the 'Reintroduction of the Saker Falcon in Bulgaria' project field team placed the first for this project artificial nest for Saker Falcons.
Prison, fine and hunting disqualification for a hunter who poisoned four vultures in Spain
28.01.2020A hunter in Spain received a harsh penalty for using poisoned baits
The Griffon vultures at the Green Balkans' Wildlife rehabilitation and breeding center were given the chance to lay a second egg
28.01.2020
The Griffon vultures at the Green Balkans' Wildlife rehabilitation and breeding center were given the chance to lay a second egg, after the first one, for which we are not certain if it is fertile or not was moved to the incubator.
The Green Balkans team began preparations for the new work season for the Egyptian vulture!
26.01.2020Spring is coming, and with it the new work season of the "Egyptian vulture New LIFE" project (LIFE16 NAT/BG/000874).
Monitoring of wintering birds at Burgas lakes
25.01.2020
On 23 January 2020, Green Balkans and BOC experts have conducted monitoring of wintering geese in the largest wetland complex in Bulgaria – Burgas Lakes.
The Bearded Vulture breeding trio in Ecrins laid an egg for a third consecutive year
24.01.2020
The Bearded Vulture breeding trio responsible for this fantastic outcome has now laid an egg in the area for the 3rd year in a row - how wonderful!
The Black vulutre pair in the Rescue center is in the beginning of the breeding season
24.01.2020
There is one breeding pair of Black vultures in the Green Balkans' Wildlife rehabiliotation and breeding center. Their mission is to support the program for reintroduction of the species in Bulgaria within project “Bright future for the Black vulture”, LIFE14 NAT/BG/649.
Second Bearded vulture egg in the Green Balkans' Wildlife rehabilitation and breeding center
23.01.2020
Six days after we announced that the Bearded vulture pair in the Green Balkans' Rescue center had laid an egg, here comes the second good news – yesterday the female has laid a second one!
