Category Archives: Education
Mongolian Great Bustards
Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2012 by Alex Stott
Our friends at the Central Asian Great Bustard Project have published an update on their activities and successes so far. You can download and read the full report below: Mongolian_Great_Bustard_Project_Summary_Jan_2012
Visiting the German great bustard project
Posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2012 by Andrew Taylor
Five members of the LIFE+ project team visited Germany last week, as guests of the Brandenburg Great Bustard Project. The main aim of the trip was to investigate German methods for incubating, rearing and releasing great bustards, to support our plan to import eggs to the UK for the first time this spring. We spent [...]
Making the news in Germany
Posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 by Andrew Taylor
Five members of the LIFE+ team were lucky enough to visit Germany last week. A report on the visit will follow, but it was also featured in a local newspaper. The article is in German, but an internet-aided translation follows. Help for English bustard protection: British scientists want to benefit from the experience of the [...]
LIFE+ noticeboards in place
Posted on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 by Andrew Taylor
Two new noticeboards have recently been produced as part of the LIFE+ project. One is on the wall of the Bustard Bothy at the Hawk Conservancy, and the other at the main project release site. They have lots of colourful pictures and information about the project. Pictured is the one at the Hawk Conservancy, with [...]
GBG Skittle evening
Posted on Friday, January 13th, 2012 by Alex Stott
There is to be a Skittles Evening at the Hawk Conservancy Trust on the 4th of February at 7:00pm with the GBG team and friends of the Bustard, all are welcome to attend. Please note that orders for fish/sausage and chips will need to be placed beforehand by emailing hannah.rose@greatbustard.org We would encourage everyone to [...]
Boomer is 50!
Posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 by Andrew Taylor
The New Holland Boomer tractor, kindly loaned to the project by C&O Tractors, has just finished its first fifty hours work at the release site. It was delivered to us in August, and has since been used by GBG volunteer Allan Goddard to make preparations for great bustard habitat creation in 2012. Today Allan is ploughing one of [...]
Great Bustard Conservation in Dévaványa, Hungary
Posted on Friday, January 6th, 2012 by Andrew Taylor
Hungary is estimated to hold 3% of the world’s great bustards; however, over the last century, a switch to more intensive farming practices, winter food shortages and fragmentation of bustard habitats led to their decline here. Since the 1990s, the population has increased through conservation by the Túzokvédelmi Program (Bustard Protection Program) as well as changes [...]
