Urdaibai Bird Center and Regional Government of Biscay have participated in the seminar called "Satellite monitoring of the Western Osprey as a global tool for education and conservation" held in the Hula Valley (Kfar Blum, Israel) in February. In this seminar have also participated experts, educators from several universities, schools, research centers, NGOs, European Space Agency and public administrations from a dozen countries (The United States, United Kingdom, Scotland, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Estonia, Palestine, Israel, Finland...).
Presentation of the seminar called "Satellite monitoring of the Western Osprey as a global tool for education and conservation"
This seminar is included in the environmental education program that several conservationist organizations have been doing during more than one decade in Middle East, entitled "Migratory birds know no boundaries", which uses birds as a tool to encourage cooperation among inhabitants of Jordan, Palestine and Israel.
The environmental education project "Osprey migration linking communities" is led in Europe by the British of "Rutland water".
The main objective of this international seminar was to share experiences between experts on Osprey migration and environmental educators to develop a project coordinated in the use of these new technologies in education (websites, Google Earth, Skype...). Urdaibai Bird Center contribute with the seminar participating in an active way in the round-tables and giving a talk which reported the work done by the Center, and particularly in the field of environmental education.
In this seminar took part the foremost experts on Ospreys in the world.
One of the newest project debated in the seminar was "Osprey migration linking communities", led by the British organization Osprey Migration Foundation whose main objective is the creation of a network of schools interconnected through it, aimed for educate and for make aware in the environmental education and also for encourage the relation between schoolchildren from several countries and cultures. It should be pointed out the participation in this program of two schools in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (Urretxindorra in Muxika and Montorre in Gautegiz Arteaga) by the hand of the Urdaibai Bird Center together with schools from Scotland, Italy and Finland, as a founding schools.
Visit to Hula Valley, one of the most important migration point in Middle East.
Representatives of Urdaibai Bird Center had the opportunity to visit Hula Valley, located in the north of Israel, very close to the border with Lebanon and the Golan Heights. This valley is located in the middle of the migratory flyway from the East Europe and Asia towards the wintering areas in Africa and it is one of the most important stopover in this flyway. It is easy to see a big number of birds of prey (White-tailed Eagle, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, Black-winged Kite...) and thousands of water birds passing the winter or stopovering in its wetlands. Among the most spectacular, highlights the wintering of some 30.000 Common Cranes in the Reserve of Agmon.
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