Blogs under category: Eurasia
The dynamic love life of the Iberian lynx
With an update from the Iberian Lynx breeding centre in Portugal, volunteer Sarah Havery describes the telltale signs of lynx courtship, and how it feels to welcome a new generation of the world’s rarest cat species.
Lynx lineage lies with good breeding
Alex Rowell responded to a call from Fauna & Flora International, asking for voyeuristic volunteers to monitor lynx breeding in Portugal. Tour of duty complete, Alex blogs about his experience and what it will take to have lynx once again roaming the Iberian peninsula.
Chasing a phantom wolf
Gareth Goldthorpe, Fauna & Flora International’s Project Field Coordinator in Georgia, joins the field team for a week of trapping wolves and bears in eastern Georgia.
Kyrgyzstan – the spirit of the place
Fauna & Flora International’s Director of Development & Communications, Chris Greenwood, thinks about Kyrgyzstan a lot. Here he illustrates some of those thoughts with photographs showing a glimpse of how beautiful the country really is.
Transylvania – the hidden wild treasure of the Carpathian Mountains
Paul Hotham, Fauna & Flora International’s Eurasia Regional Director, reveals the truth behind the myth of this beautiful region of Romania…
The Garden of Eden?
Fauna & Flora International’s Director of Development & Communications, Dr Chris Greenwood, tried for an apple a day, but failed dismally, on a recent trip to Kyrgyzstan.
Learning to count snow leopards in Tajikistan
Alex Diment, FFI’s Capacity and Development Manager for Eurasia, blogs about a recent trip to the breathtakingly beautiful, yet often unexplored Tajikistan.
Not just another ordinary day in the office
Gareth Goldthorpe, Fauna & Flora International’s Project Field Coordinator in Georgia blogs about how an eight-month old orphaned bear cub spotted near the Georgian Republic and South Ossetia administrative boundary rallied a group of NGOs to ensure his safe rescue.
Notes from the field: Saving saiga antelopes in the Uzbek Ustyurt Plateau
FFI’s Maria Karlstetter visits a remote area of Uzbekistan to check the progress of our saiga conservation work.
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