Great Bustard – Otis tarda

Bustard experts of the Austrian LIFE+ Project and from Hungary and Slovakia meet as usual on the synchronous counting day at the border triangle to consult each other about the results of the bustard counting and to exchange information on the state of the LIFE+ Project in A and the activities after the LIFE+ Projects in H and SK (Action E.4: Central European bustard coordinator)

Representatives of the Hungarian energy supplying company and M. Lóránt visit together with S. Aberle (APG) and R. Raab the project area “Parndorfer Platte – Heideboden“; presentation of the different marking methods of power lines within the LIFE project by S. Aberle (APG) and R. Raab (Action E.4: Central European bustard coordinator)

Project visit by LJM DI Peter Prieler (senior representative of the official hunters’ association of Burgenland) together with hunters from Styria in the project area “Parndorfer Platte – Heideboden“; presentation of the LIFE+ project by R. Raab (Action D.8: raising awareness among stakeholders in PPH and WHA respectively Action E.7: Monitoring of the Great Bustard population in PPH)

Delegates from Czech Republic together with R. Raab visit the project area “Westliches Weinviertel“; introduction to the LIFE+ Project by R. Raab (Action E.4: Central European bustard coordinator respectively Action E.5: Monitoring of the Great Bustard population in WWV)

On August 28th, 2014 Ing. Werner Falb-Meixner was elected as new chairman of the regional association “Interessensgemeinschaft Europaschutzgebiet Parndorfer Platte - Heideboden”. At he beginning of September a couple of articles were published in newspapers e.g. Kronenzeitung, BVZ and Bezirksblätter Neusiedl am See.

BVZ am 4. September 2014 (pdf, 1,9 MB)

Bezirksblätter Neusiedl am See am 3. September 2014 (pdf, 1,7 MB)

Kronenzeitung am 1. September 2014 (pdf, 2 MB)

Information session in Straning (A) for chosen farmers with bustards protection fields in the project area “Westliches Weinviertel” (Action D.2: Information sessions for public relations and board meetings of the project)

July 25-27, 2014

Bustard experts of the Austrian LIFE+ Project and experts of the Northern Bold Ibis LIFE+ Project meet in Grödig (A) and Burghausen (D) to exchange information. Presentation “Die Großtrappe - Schutzmaßnahmen in einem LIFE+ Projekt” in Burghausen (D) by R. Raab (Action E.4: Central European bustard coordinator and Action E.16: networking with other projects)