Monitoring of railway lines in Austria is carried out with the help of a specially trained dog unit. Meet Stefan Knöpfer, Nature Conservation Dog Handler for BirdLife Austria, and find out more about this interesting activity!bThe activities in Austria are carried out in cooperation with project partners National Park Donau-Auen and Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).
On the World Wetlands Day 2024 with theme Life interlaced wetlands and people, we are starting with the short video series Introducing LIFE Danube Free Sky in Austria! Learn more about the importance of the Danube, National Park Donau-Auen area, and also about activities in Austria with Christoph Litschauer, Project Manager from NPDA. We will continously publish more videos from each project country, introducing the project team, areas, and activities.
Dogs can be really helpful when comes to the protection of birds. How so? Watch the short video about the cooperation between our project partners in Austria: Austrian Federal Railways OEBB and National Park Donau-Auen
Project Management Board Meeting, Advisory Workshop and Conference - all these events we have experienced during last week. On the 17 - 18 October, the fourth Project Board Meeting took place in Gyöngyös, Hungary. During the meeting, the representatives of the project partners meet in person to discuss the project progress, results, and next steps that are planned to ensure the successful project implementation.
In September, a team from the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB), in collaboration with Electrodistribution Grid West ЕAD and Stefania Kamenova from the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, successfully collected samples from occupied nests of European Rollers (Coracias garrulus) for an upcoming study and analysis of the food spectrum of this attractive species. This activity is carried out within the framework of the LIFE Danube Free Sky project.
Tracking individuals of various bird species by satellite or radio telemetry has yielded many valuable insights. This year, six juvenile Saker Falcon chicks in southern Slovakia were tagged with satellite transmitters, which will provide up-to-date information on their location. Click on the Read More button and watch a short video directly from the installation! Using this method, where the movements of individuals can be tracked essentially continuously in an online environment, we can get unique data on movements, hunting territories, migration routes, as well as the dangers that mostly juveniles have to face.
The LIFE DANUBE FREE SKY project has received funding from the LIFE Programme of the European Union. More info.
The LIFE DANUBE FREE SKY project is part of nature conservation and biodiversity projects in Natura 2000. More info.
The LIFE Danube Free Sky project is co-financed by the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic.
Email: info@danubefreesky.eu