In the beginning of December a meeting of the Marine Task Force was held at the BirdLife International head office in Brussels. The task force has been established in order to strenghten and coordinate the activities for the conservation of marine birds and their environment within the network of the European BirdLife partners.
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In the scope of the project SIMARINE-NATURA we organized the second workshop for the stakeholders in November. The aim of the workshop was to present the results of the ecological study of the Mediterranean Shag and the protocol for acting in case of accidental oil spills and oiled seabirds in the Slovenian sea. These are the central themes of the project which set new foundation for the protection of seabirds in Slovenia and thus integrated conservation of the marine environment.
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The autumn has come and you have been given a high chance of observing an interesting phoenomenon – large groups of the Mediterranean Shags, which consist of tens or even hundreds of individuals! If you see a group of more than ten individuals in the Slovenian sea, we will be grateful to receive information about your sightings. You are welcome to fill in this form. This way you will contribute to our knowledge about the distribution of the Mediterranean Shags in the Slovenian sea and thus to better planning of their conservation.

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After reporting about three more tagged Shags, Bepo, Ante and Tonin, we intensively continued with the field work on the coast by the town of Isola. Our effort was fruitful since we tagged another seven Shags between 18th July and 27th August. The field work in action “Shag telemetry” was thus successfully completed at the end of the summer, according to our plans. Continue reading →

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This week we tagged three more Shags with GPS loggers, two adults and one subadult. The first GPS data which we received show that Bepo and Ante wander far from coast during the day, while for now Tonin keeps close to the roosting site on the shellfish farm near Strunjan.
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In the last two days we caught and tagged with GPS loggers two more Mediterranean Shags which we named Nikola and Tartini. Continue reading →

We are happy to announce that our short documentary “The Mediterranean Shag” qualified for this year’s film festival “Isola Cinema – Kino Otok”. The movie will be presented as part of the “Video on the beach” programme, on Wednesday, 4th June, opening at 21h. Welcome to take part in the programme and watch this and several other short movies which will be performed on the beach of the town of Izola, near the renown Izola lighthouse.
 
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In the middle of April, the European Parliament (EP) gave the rubber stamp to the final deal on the European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) – €6.5 billion to support the EU’s fishery and maritime policies from 2014 to 2020. The new fund offers improved opportunities for investment in fisheries recovery and the environment, but still includes too many options for perverse subsidies.
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In the beginning of this year we addressed to the European Commission a request for SIMARINE-NATURA project end postponement. At the end of March the Commission informed us that our request had been approved. We appreciate very much this six months extension – the new project end date is now 31.8.2015. Moreover, we welcomed two representatives of the European Commission this week at DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia.

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