{"id":14260,"date":"2016-06-13T23:29:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T21:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/?p=14260"},"modified":"2016-06-13T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T21:29:58","slug":"alarming-decline-balkan-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/?p=14260","title":{"rendered":"The alarming decline of the Balkan populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/graph-actu-perc.jpg\" class=\"imagecache-original\" width=\"250\" height=\"154\"> The alarming decline of the Balkan populations, increased from 600 pairs in the 80 to less than 60 in 2013. Read the article published in Bird Conservation International <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1449818562_7.pdf\">on this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Summary<\/h4>\n<p>Population  decline  and  range  contraction  of  the Egyptian Vulture <em> Neophron percnopterus<\/em>  in the Balkan Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian Vulture has been classified as \u2018Endangered\u2019 due to a rapid population decline in India and long term declines in Europe and Africa. Although the species has been reported to be declining in Eastern Europe, no quantitative assessment of the magnitude or the causes for population  declines  are  available.  We  used  monitoring  data  from  the  Balkan  Peninsula  to estimate changes in population size and extent of occurrence of Egyptian Vultures between 1980  and  2013. We quantified population trends in three countries (Bulgaria, Greece and the former  Yugoslav  Republic  [FYR]  of  Macedonia)  to  assess  whether  population  declines  are  similar within the Balkan range states. We found a rapid and consistent decline of the Egyptian Vulture  population  that  was  largely  similar  among  the  three  countries  (in Greece). As a consequence of population declines,  the  breeding  range  of  Egyptian  Vultures  has  contracted  and  the  population  in  the  Balkan  Peninsula has fragmented into six subpopulations separated by more than 80 km. Population declines  may  be  driven  by  factors  such  as  poisoning,  electrocution,  direct  persecution  and  changes  in  food  availability  which  operate  at  large  spatial  scales  and  affect  birds  both  on  breeding grounds as well as during migration and wintering. Because the relative importance of threats to the survival of Egyptian Vultures are poorly understood, there is a critical need for  research  into  causes  of  mortality  and  potential  conservation  actions  that  may  halt  and  reverse  population  declines.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alarming decline of the Balkan populations, increased from 600 pairs in the 80 to less than 60 in 2013. Read the article published in Bird Conservation International on this link. Summary Population decline and range contraction of the Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus in the Balkan Peninsula. The Egyptian Vulture has been classified as \u2018Endangered\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autres-informations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}