Sabuko’s half-year report

Sabuko’s half-year report summarizes Sabuko’s work and main activities in direction of conservation, wildlife protection and awareness raising.

Assessing the Scale of Hunting of Birds Based on the Available Data and Reports Across Georgia with a Focus on Batumi Bottleneck

Illegal killing is one of the main risks for the birds becoming extinct globally. Poaching birds became one of the major threats for bird migrating between Europe and Africa. Every autumn more than 1,000,000+ birds of prey migrate through the Batumi Bottleneck. Batumi Raptor Count (BRC) along with SABUKO work on monitoring and conserve birds

Annual Report 2018

In the new annual report Sabuko has summarized its most important events and activities of 2018 Annual Report 2018

“Even familiar birds at risk of extinction, new study finds” By Margaret Sessa

On 23d of April, BirdLife International published an  article by Margaret Sessa. Please see the article here  (press on the arrow)   To read more about how these changes could be enacted as well as how birds are doing globally, read the complete State of the World’s Birds 2018 report click 

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Migration Watch

                      Article was published in Geographical magazine by Chris Fitch, March 2017 (www.geographical.co.uk) Brief description: Twice a year, for up to eight weeks at a time, the skies above western Georgia darken, as thousands upon thousands of birds of prey fill the air. With up

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Understanding hunters’ habits and motivations for shooting raptors in the Batumi raptor-migration bottleneck, southwest Georgia

Article by Anna Sandor, Johannes Jansen &Wouter M Vansteelant Brief Summary: Every autumn in Georgia, more than one million birds of prey migrate through the Batumi raptor-migration bottleneck, between the east coast of the Black sea and the foothills of the Lesser Caucasus. In cloudy and, especially, rainy weather, raptors fly low and become easy

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