Bulgaria’s Griffon Vultures present a wild travel opportunity

2015/3/19 12:27:31

Maintaining and supporting the comeback of the vultures in the Eastern Rhodopes is one of the highlights of the recently started five-year rewilding activities financed by the Swiss-based Fondation Segré. The Eastern Rhodopes is also the most important breeding site for the globally threatened Egyptian Vulture on the Balkan peninsula.

 

 


MADZHAROVO, Bulgaria, Mar 19, 2015 (UBO) – Bulgaria is probably not be the travel destination that first comes to your mind but that country’s Eastern Rhodope Mountains might be worth some consideration. Before you pack your bags for this rather remote location you might want to contact Rewilding Europe for some advice about how you could help with efforts to augment the newly emerging numbers of Griffon Vultures, once thought extinct but now making are remarkable recovery.

 

In a recent release, Rewilding said:

 

Vultures of many kinds are on the rise in Bulgaria's remote mountains

 

The numbers of Griffon Vultures found to be nesting in the Eastern Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria has risen considerably, reports Rewilding Europe.

 

In February 2015, experts from Rewilding Rhodopes and its partner the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds BirdLife Bulgaria visited all the known nesting locations of Griffon Vultures in the Eastern Rhodopes.

 

Of the 75 registered Griffon Vulture pairs in the area they found that 55 were at an incubation stage and the rest were in the process of building their nests.

 

Most of the identified pairs consist of adult birds.

 

“The positive trend of increase of the population of the Griffon Vulture in the Eastern Rhodopes continues this year as well five more pairs compared to 2014,” says Dobromir Dobrev from the Rewilding Rhodopes team.

 

“An interesting result of the monitoring is the large number of single, non-breeding birds along the Arda river valley.”

 

For complete text of the article and information on ways you might help with Rewilding efforts, link below:

http://www.wildlifeextra.com/do/ecco. ... temid=20379&live=0#cr

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