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Securing prey sources for endangered Falco cherrug and Aquila heliaca population in the Carpathian basin (RAPTORSPREYLIFE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Background Lake Fertő and the swamps of Hanság have a rich fauna, including threatened species listed in Annex I of the Birds Directive. Bird species in the National Park and Natura 2000 network site include great bustard (Otis tarda) and several birds of prey; there are about 10 pairs of Saker falcon (Falco cherrug) and 6-7 pairs of Eastern imperial ea ...
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Restoration and conservation of priority-listed Pannonic sand land habitats in military owned area of the Hungarian Little Plain (Hungarian Little Plain)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Background Once covering vast areas of the Little Hungarian Plain (western Hungary), between the towns of Győr and Esztergom, as a result of human activity only remnants of the priority habitats Pannonic sand steppe and Pannonic inland sand dune thicket Junipero-Populetum albae remain in the region. A few patches can be found in the military sites near G ...
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Anchoring the Danube River Network of Protected Areas as Platform for Preservation of Danube Natural Heritage  (DANUBEPARKS STEP 2.0)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

Anchoring the Danube River Network of Protected Areas as Platform for Preservation of Danube Natural Heritage Achievements: While in the first project we implemented activities on fish, birds and mammals, in the DANUBEPARKS STEP 2.0 project the energy was focused only o ...
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Conservation of Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis) in the Carpathian-basin (CONVIPURSRAK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Background The Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis) is Europe's most endangered venomous snake. It has been protected since 1974 in Hungary, where it is the country’s most endangered vertebrate. Studies have indicated that there are now less than 500 individuals in Hungary, in two small and isolated populations: one in the Hanság (North- ...
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Conservation of Falco cherrug in the Carpathian basin (Falco cherrug-Hu/SK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

Background The Saker falcon (Falco cherrug) is a very rare and threatened species in Europe. The total European breeding population was, until recently, estimated at 450 pairs. Hungary and Slovakia hold about 40% of this population. Therefore, the conservation of the population in the Carpathian basin in these two countries was crucial to the survival of ...
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Conservation of Otis tarda in Hungary (OTISHU)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2008,

Background Hungary’s population of the globally threatened great bustard (Otis tarda) decreased dramatically in the latter part of the Twentieth Century (from 8 557 in 1941 to no more than 1 300 individuals by 1988). The population of this priority European species was stagnating and the bird’s long term conservation status in Hungary remained threate ...
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