túzok – Otis tarda

On August 25th, 2012 at 3:45 p.m. ORF 2 broadcasted in whole Austria a 4,5 minutes report about the Great Bustard and the measures within the LIFE+ project in the programme “Land und Leute”.

Land und Leute am 25. August 2012 (wmv, 76 MB)

Project visit by Karl Hohenlohe in the project area “Westliches Weinviertel“ (Action E.4: Central European bustard coordinator)

Visit of the LIFE+ project by a camera crew of the ORF “Land und Leute“-team for shooting of a film (Action D.3: Public relation)

Considerately mowing in the project area “Waasen – Hanság“. In order to prevent the clutches or ckicks of the Great Bustard or of clutches or chicks of the Short-eared Owl from being killed by mowing special measures were undertaken from R. Raab and the farmers. Also young deer and hares benefit from these measures. (Action E.15: Control (Monitoring) – immediate measures fort he protection of clutches)

Project visit by members of the University Graz in the project area “Waasen – Hanság“ (Action D.2: Information sessions for public relations and board meetings of the project)

In May 2012 several reports about the opening of the observation tower “LIFE+ Great Bustard Andau“ within the framework of the “LIFE 20th anniversary” were broadcasted. Besides the report on ORF 2 (see May 9th, 2012) a report was broadcasted on the “Burgenländische Volksgruppensendung” of the ORF. Also the radio station Radio Burgenland covered the event. In addition a couple of articles were published in regional newspapers e.g. Bezirksblatt Neusiedl.

On 21.05.2012 an article about the successful protection of great bustards is published on the homepage of "Netz Burgenland". The focus lays on already implemented conservation measures like transfering power lines below the soil and marking them with bird warning flags.

www.netzburgenland.at (pdf, 78,1 KB)