Mulberry, the sacred tree of the Municipality of Soufli A beautiful initiative left its mark on our region in recent days. The mulberry festival, a tribute to the favorite tree of the residents of the region. The festival aims to highlight the multiple values of the tree in everyday life, in gastronomy, in silk production, in wildlife and of course in […]
CategoriesWind farms Birds of prey Vultures Press release Events Thrace Cinereous vulture TOP NEWS Griffon vulture Environmental licensing Environmental legislation Cumulative impact FloraWhat should worry us more? The impacts on nature of each wind farm individually or all of them together, current and future? For the first time in Greece, the cumulative impacts of the Thrace wind farms on species and habitats were assessed through a program implemented by the Thrace Biodiversity Protection Society (EPBTH). An important resource is added to the quiver of those involved […]
CategoriesWind farms Evros Events Thrace TOP NEWS Xanthi Environmental licensing Environmental legislation Rhodope Seminars Cumulative impactSeminars on the legal framework for the environmental permitting of ASPIE in Alexandroupolis, Komotini and Xanthi Both EU and national legislation provide for specific procedures for the assessment of the impacts (including cumulative) of ASPIE* projects in the context of environmental permitting in order to ensure that the climate objectives for clean energy will be achieved […]
Another black vulture victim of wind turbine collision in Thrace On April 30, a black vulture flying in the Drosia Rhodope area crashed into a wind turbine of a four-turbine wind farm located in the «Filiouri Valley» Important Bird Area. The black vulture was located thanks to the satellite transmitter it carried on its back three days after […]
CategoriesESCVolunteer stories: My experience of volunteering in Thrace Sara Masó, volunteer European Solidarity Crops I started this volunteering with the aim of learning a lot about birds of prey, and that’s what happened, but I have also learned about many other topics. Dadia is the ideal place to immerse yourself in nature and the real Greece. […]
CategoriesPress releaseWind turbines in the Dadia Forest National Park: April Fool's joke or sad reality? Who would have imagined that after almost 20 years of efforts for the proper location of ASPIE in Thrace, there would be a request for the installation of 10 wind turbines in the Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli National Park, specifically at the "Trikorfo" location at the southwestern edge of the National Park [...]
CategoriesESCVolunteer Stories: My «Family» and «Home» in Dadia Tiago Brandao, European Solidarity Crops Volunteer I had just landed at Alexandroupolis airport with a little over two hours of delay. I went straight to the bus stop. It was the last of the three flights I had on the way from my home country of Portugal to […]
Volunteer Stories: A Summer Turtle Rescue Expedition Tomás Correia, European Solidarity Corps Volunteer Being a wildlife enthusiast, during my volunteer program at EPBTH, I was involved in a study on land turtles. Why turtles? You can’t imagine my surprise when I encountered the first turtle in Dadia and […]
CategoriesbirdsThe small “backpack” on the back of birds that contributes to their protection Have you ever wondered where scientists get this information from when they record the movements of birds? Its source is a small device – a transmitter, which is very carefully placed with special ropes as a “backpack” on the back of birds. In order not to […]
CategoriesWind farms ThreatsCumulative impacts of wind farms: new study by the Hellenic National Institute of Biodiversity aims to provide answers to unanswered questions It is known that wind farms pose a potential risk of death for birds when they are in their flight paths. However, how significant is this risk in practice and what are the real impacts of wind farms for electricity production […]
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