The 'NATURA 2000 in Bulgaria - NEW HORIZONS

In the period 18-20 December, Green Balkans team has visited the region of Coastal Dobrogea in the framework of regular monitoring of wintering birds implemented by the society within “Long-term conservation of Red-breasted geese in their main wintering sites” project.

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

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.

Every year on the 28th of November our colleagues at the Sinite kamani NPD celebrate one more year taking care of nature in the region.

As always with the beginning of winter we get more calls for bat colonies in distress, usually chased away from their wintering places.

We joined the 14th traditional census of wintering griffon vultures on the Balkan Peninsula, coordinated by the BSPB in partnership with Green Balkans, the FWFF, BPPS as well as nature conservation organizations from Greece, Serbia and Macedonia.

This November the Green Balkans team visited the ‘Esetra’ students club at the University of Plovdiv Faculty of biology for the second time.

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!

A sandwich tern, ringed on the island of Ameland, in the North Sea, visited the Pomorie lake Visitor Center in September.

Right before the autumn chill, we managed to organize one more bat afternoon and tell the kids in Zhitnitsa many interesting things about bats.

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.

On the 1st of November the Green Balkans team took part in a student scientific conference ‘Ecology - a way of thinking’, organized by the department of Ecology and environmental conservation, Faculty of Biology, ‘Paisii Hilendarski’ University of Plovdiv, the Student Council at the University of Plovdiv and the ‘Esetra’ Students club at the University of Plovdiv.