Puni naziv projekta:
Development of the Safe Flyways programme
Project duration:
1.11.2025.-30.10.2027.
Total budget:
60.000€
Association Biom budget:
60.000€
Lead partner:
Association Biom
Contact:
Bolesław Słociński
Dominik Spevec
Project goals
Development of professional and volunteer monitoring of direct threats to birds (poaching, nest destruction, collisions with glass)
Promotion of birdwatching tourism in Croatia in the international birdwatching community
Trainings for judiciaries on illegal killing of birds
Development of a pilot project for the prevention of bird collisions on glass surfaces
Project summary
The project is being implemented with the aim of developing the Safe Flyways program of the Biom Association. So far, the program has mainly dealt with the issue of illegal bird killing (poaching, poisoning, lead poisoning from hunting ammunition). Through this project, Biom will develop this segment of work by introducing new technologies into professional monitoring of poaching, working with the judiciary, and advocating for the adoption and effective implementation of strategic documents. Through this project, we want to develop Biom’s work on collisions with glass. We will produce and distribute dot stickers to citizens, companies, and public buildings as the most effective and cheapest method of preventing bird casualties on glass surfaces. We also want to promote birdwatching tourism in biodiversity hotspots more strongly in order to increase the value of ornithological reserves for local communities.
Through the project, we aim to increase the effectiveness of our efforts for sustainable biodiversity management through targeted advocacy activities. We will advocate for anti-conflict measures towards city administrations and companies that manage public areas. We will advocate for the adaptation of the Hunting Act to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention). We will advocate for the introduction of public consultations in procedures related to environmental interventions regulated by the Hunting Act. We will engage in administrative procedures on decisions on the permission to destroy nests and broods of feathered game from the Corvus family.
Through the project, we also want to introduce a new volunteer program. A program for monitoring the operation of wind farms at a time when they are prohibited by decisions on acceptability for the ecological network. Citizens are being monitored over the operation of the wind farm, which, after a non-transparent ex-post study, was allowed to operate with extensive measures, according to which it should not operate for most of the year, but we witness violations of these measures every day. The results of the monitoring will be used to advocate for better monitoring of the wind farm and greater transparency of the environmental impact assessment process. Every time citizens notice work at a time when the wind farm should not operate, they will report it to the State Inspectorate of the Republic of Croatia.
Funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are those of the Biom Association and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.