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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Also, it is a part of the international ecological corridor and the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA), already proposed for a nature reserve by the Government’s Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1

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Birding Gir National Park, India

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This park protects the largest remaining tract of dry deciduous forest in the west of India, offering visitors 37 species of reptiles, 38 species of mammals and, not to be forgotten – almost 300 bird species. while herbivores are represented by Chital and Sambar (above) deer, Wild Boar , Nilgai antelope, etc. We’re here for the birds!”

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The best-kept birding secrets of Belgrade

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In June 2021, the Mayor of Belgrade announced that Beljarica will finally become officially protected. Two Wild Boars crossed our path, returning from the arable field where they fed overnight, to the safety of Beljarica. Before that, on a rather sharp right bend, 1.8 We continued on to Sakule.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. I think all were males, at last two huge ones certainly were.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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The Smell of Napalm in the Morning

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Beljarica floodplain, from the Danube at the left to the embankment at the right hand side. Out of these 136 bird species, 108 are strictly protected and further 28 protected by Serbian legislation. White-tailed Eagles by Szekeres Levente. Only two years ago, in the spring 2014, Serbia had catastrophic floods.

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The Belgrade Amazon Campaign or the House of the Eagle

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Were the hydrologists of 1920s worried where the fish will spawn, Wild Boars fatten and eagles nest? And there is only one certain way to protect the lower parts of the city from floods: let the river spread and flood some other area, before it reaches the city. Yet, the Beljarica remained open to flooding.

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