Archive for October, 2009
Great Bustards in Çayirbasi, Altintas, Turkey
Posted on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 by Charlie Moores
Submitted by Metin AKSAZ (left of group in photo above) Great Bustards are locally called “Toy” in our village and other neighboring villages. Great Bustard live in Altintas and they like the area, visit this site in this area you don’t see any tree, in this area farmers grow cereal greens (Barley, wheat, chickpea and […]
Longfields primary school talk
Posted on Monday, October 19th, 2009 by Alex Stott
I am the Deputy Head of Longfields primary school in Bicester. There are 240 pupils on roll. As part of our ECO week we asked Ann Jordan from the Great Bustard Group to give a talk on the re-introduction project. This linked with other work on re-introduction projects, endangered species and habitats. We found the talk […]
Photos from this year’s Russian survey
Posted on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 by Charlie Moores
Photos from David Waters in Russia Most of the days are spent on roads like this. Easy (if very dusty) in dry weather, this and very slippery in the wet. Census. Voloda Promonov and Mary Walden during the census. They are either looking for Great Bustards, health or for the other side of the […]
Elke Schmidt, GBG volunteer from Germany
Posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 by Charlie Moores
The GBG welcomes volunteers to help out at our Salisbury Plain release site, malady and this autumn we have been delighted to have Elke, health a freelance conservationist based in Germany, visit and work with us for three weeks. Here she writes in her own words about her stay… “Hello, My name is Elke […]