“It’s like a miracle”: the emotional reintroduction of the Bearded Vulture in Bulgaria
Half a century after its extinction, Bulgaria celebrated the reintroduction of one of Europe’s rarest birds of prey — the Bearded Vulture. This is seen as a stepping stone to reconnecting them across Europe, and to other continents.
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00:00The species went extinct like more than a half a century ago, so that's why we put all our forces to bring these species back.
00:11I'm Andriana Oditeva and I'm breeding program coordinator in the Green Balkans Wildlife Rehabilitation and Breeding Center.
00:20Are there vultures in Bulgaria?
00:22In Bulgaria we have four species, bearded vultures, cinereus vultures, Egyptian vultures and Griffon, but bearded vultures are the first three birds that we have. Before that they were totally extinct.
00:34Why are they important?
00:36They are scavengers, they usually eat dead animals, so they help people by cleaning the dead carcasses from the wild.
00:43Are they dangerous?
00:44No, they are not dangerous because it's not in their nature to kill, to pray, they will not attack people.
00:51Who is their main predator?
00:53Human. People are the biggest enemy of vultures. Poisoning, poaching, also habitat destruction, lack of food.
01:03Who poisons them?
01:05Mostly stock breeders from the local villages, but they are not setting poisons against vultures, but against wolves, jackals.
01:13So their target is not to kill vultures, but other predators.
01:17Are the populations increasing?
01:18Generally speaking, I can say that in Europe they are increasing.
01:21Thanks to European Life Plus program, they are funding most of their introduction projects.
01:27We started like 30 years ago and now we have good results in Bulgaria, so it's a long process.
01:32The European province is a long process.
01:33We have a great team in Bulgaria, so it's almost a long process.
01:34We have a great team in Bulgaria and we are very advanced, really focused onavour.
01:38It's amazing, right?
01:39I'm the one.
01:40The European
01:46It's very strong-minded.
01:47This is a great team of volte-from-agem-a-counter今回, the European Union, for the US, and the United
01:52きatives in the world and the European Union.
01:54It's a great team of civilians, so it is a great team of the European Union.
