5 million British know Euskadi through the Osprey project

Thursday, 04 September 2014 07:14

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A BBC team, the British public television, has done a report about the reintroduction program of the osprey in the Biosphere Reserve of Urdaibai. The documentary will be broadcast in September in the UK. The program will present the famous British presenter called Mike Dilger.

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 The report is part of the program "The One Show" a Prime Time program broadcast on the first channel of the British public television that has an average audience of about five million people, and it´s one of the most popular TV shows in the UK. The Biosphere Reserve of Urdaibai and the Basque Country will appear on the British public as a premier ecotourism destination in a society, the British, extremely fond of birds and nature in general.

 Indeed, one of the main objectives of the recovery program of the osprey is the promotion of ecotourism. The presence of a unique element of a raptor that is extinct in much of European geography, adds uniqueness to our landscape helping to bring to Euskadi birders and enthusiastic about nature of other European countries, thus promoting the economy of the local community.

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The report consists on two parts. In the first part, the BBC team moved in early July to Scotland Highlands, where they filmed the extraction process of a baby from the osprey nest to donate to Basque recovery program. In addition, they recorded an interview with Roy Dennis, the prestigious Scottish naturalist who advises the work team of Urdaibai Bird Center.

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Some weeks after, Roy Dennis, Mike Dilger and technical staff of the BBC travelled to Urdaibai to record the second part of the report: the process of acclimatization to their new nests and the freedom of the ospreys. After filming the first flights, the work team of BBC made interviews with technical personnel in charge of the recovery of the osprey and moved to different locations to shoot different places of Urdaibai.

They also visited and made recordings in Urdaibai Bird Center, where they chatted with their technical staff on various aspects of biodiversity in the Biosphere Reserve of Urdaibai and the recovery project of ospreys. The whole team was pleasantly surprised by the features of the centre and for the work that they do, promising to return to Urdaibai within a few years, when the first baby is born in Urdaibai.

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Until then, anyone who wants to learn about this exciting project you can  visit the Urdaibai Bird Center and enjoy the incredible journeys of these Ospreys. (www.birdcenter.org)

 

 

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