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The HELICON LIFE project has been finished at 31 December 2016, meanwhile a new international project has been started. Hungarian, Slovak, Austrian, Czech and Serbian colleagues are working together in the PannonEagle LIFE project for the conservation of imperial eagles and for the elimination of predator poisoning between 2017 and 2022. Please visit the imperialeagle.eu site for actual information!

New chapter starts in the fight against poisoning of eagles

Although, fight against illegal bird poisoning may seem to be tilting at windmills, fortunately close cooperation of stakeholders has greatly improved the situation in recent years. MME/Birdlife Hungary had coordinated the EU and government funded Helicon Life programme between 2012 and 2016, which aimed to reduce poisoning of the Imperial Eagle.

"Falco" the detection dog also helps the LIFE projects to recover GPS-tagged birds

Another, satellite-tracked Saker Falcon was electrocuted, this time in Slovakia. The case was revealed by the bird's transmitter. So far, six adult Saker Falcons have received GPS-based tracking devices in the frame of the conservation project "Securing prey sources for endangered Falco cherrug and Aquila heliaca populations in the Carpathian basin” (RAPTORSPREYLIFE) LIFE13 NAT/HU/000183, supported by the European Union.

Predators in eagles’ diet

Birds of preys have always been considered by game-keepers as pests which take a serious toll on the populations of their “precious” small game species. One would never think that certain raptors, notably Imperial Eagle and White-tailed Eagle in Hungary, being on the top of the food chain, are the most effective regulators of the populations of such species, mainly corvids and mammalian predators, which are hunted legally otherwise, therefore benefitting hunters.

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