The dog unit can help assess the natural damage caused by mowing

Nature distruction caused by mowing

02.08.2021.

The poison and carcass detection dog unit of BirdLife Hungary has already proved its efficiency in the search for poisoned wild animals in the last seven years. However, the unit can also be deployed successfully for other conservation issues; for example detecting unintentional conservation damage by locating the carcasses of protected animals killed during agricultural mowing. 

For the first time ever, two Eastern Imperial Eagle chicks tagged with satellite transmitters in Serbia

06.07.2021.

Mima and Mihajlo, the Eastern Imperial Eagle chicks from Serbia will be monitored for the first time with the help of satellite transmitters, the technology that will enable ornithologists from the Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia to monitor the movement of the birds in real time, which can ensure the survival of this species.

7 years in the field – the Hungarian dog unit on its way to world fame

17.05.2021

In February 2021, BirdLife Hungary experts published an article in the Journal of Vertebrate Biology: “Using detection dogs to reveal illegal pesticide poisoning of raptors in
Hungary”, which presents the dog unit’s results of the past seven years with scientific detail, and describes how effective search dogs are in locating carcasses. This article is an excerpt from this publication.

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