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Efforts to protect the Great Bustard are showing success throughout Central Europe

This year's first bustard chicks hatched at the Great Bustard Conservation Station of the Körös-Maros National Park Directorate recently. Caregivers feed and walk the five flaky little chicks every day.
Great bustard eggs rescued from the first endangered nests arrived at the Station in mid-April. So far, experts have delivered ten endangered eggs from the KMNP and two from more remote areas.
Within the framework of the LIFE project entitled “Cross-border protection of Great Bustard in Central Europe”, the National Park Directorate could procure new, modern hatcheries. This year's chicks have already been hatched in these facilities. The other bustard eggs are also constantly monitored at the Conservation Station and we are confident that the number of successfully hatching chicks will soon increase further.
The young birds will then be reared on the Directorate’s 400-acre Great Bustard Conservation Area and will be gradually released according to the practice of previous decades.

Link to the original post with pictures

On July 18th 2019 a short article about the visit of the Bustard observation tower at the Wartberger church by the regional councilor Schleritzko was published.

NÖN - Artikel (jpeg, 221 KB)

 

Presentation about the successes of our three LIFE Projects as part of the #EUGREENWEEK.

The entire lectures can be followed live here: https://www.eugreenweek.eu/en/brussels-conference
An overview of the speakers: https://www.eugreenweek.eu/en/listing-speakers
And the registration page: https://registration.eugreenweek.eu/en/registration

 

In the course of a major press event with Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zolt Semjén, the first section of a medium-voltage power line from NKM in the Kiskunság National Park was transfered below the ground and the last pylon dismantled.

On March 20th 2019 an interesting article about the golden jackal and the influence on the Great Bustard is published in Kurier.

Kurier Article (pdf, 147 KB)

 

These impressive photos were taken by our Bustard friend Jozef Chavko from the Raptor Protection Slovakia (Ochrana dravcov na Slovensku). The photos show an imperial eagle in the second calendar year, who was tagged on 06.07.2018 by the TB Raab in the March-Thaya-Auen in coordination with DI Hans Jörg Damm, Director of Agriculture and Forest Wilfersdorf of the Foundation Prince Liechtenstein and the professional hunter Stefan Weeks.
The bird stayed in Lower Austria and the Czech Republic for a long time after the tagging, but was spotted and photographed in the Bustard area Parndorfer Platte - Heideboden on the 2nd and 3rd of February. We hope that this bird will continue to provide many important information to learn more about the influence of the Imperial Eagle on the Great Bustard and to successfully protect both species.

An article on the LIFE Great Bustard project is published on the European Commission's website.

Cross-border cooperation boosts the great bustard

On August 1st 2018 an interesting article about the MaGICLandscapes project in the Waldviertel is published in the NÖN.

NÖN-Artikel (pdf, 2853 kB)

On July 23th 2018 an interesting article about the golden jackal and the threats for the Great Bustard is published.

Kurier Artikel (pdf, 88 KB)

 

On July 20th 2018 an article about game management on protected areas is published in the Newsletter of the Kiskunság National park. The article can be found on page 9 in hungarian.

KNPD Newsletter (pdf, 7.324 KB)