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Nuovo Teatro Comunale
Santa Fiora (GR), Italy
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First session • November 5
• The conservation of the Red Kite
in Europe
Second session • November 6
• Birds and power lines
LIFE
SAVE THE
FLYERS
Save the Flyers
LIFE08 NAT/IT/000332
Project realized with the contribution of the LIFE financial instrument of the European Commission
• Birds and power lines
First session • November 5 2014
• The conservation
of the Red Kite in Europe
9,00 - 9,30
Registration of the participants
9,30 - 10,00
Congress opening and
welcome speeches
10,00 - 10,20
The LIFE Project Save the Flyers
10,20 - 10,40
The Red Kite in Italy
10,40 - 11,10
The reintroduction of the Red Kite
to the Upper Albegna Valley (Italy)
10,10 - 11,40
11,40 - 12,00
Measures carried out in the “Gola della
Rossa e di Frasassi” Natural Park (Italy)
in favour of the Red Kite and raptors
Claudio Franci
(President Unione dei Comuni
Montani Amiata Grossetana);
Massimiliano Scotti (Director of Gola
della Rossa e di Frasassi Natural Park);
Anna Brogi (Head of Safety,
Environment, Quality and Energy Efficiency
Enel Distribuzione);
Federico Balocchi (Mayor of Santa Fiora)
Anna Cenerini, Biodiversità sas
Nicola Cillo, Ornithologist
Guido Ceccolini, Biodiversità sas
coffee break
Massimiliano Scotti, “Gola della Rossa
e di Frasassi” Natural Park
12,00 - 12,30
Remote monitoring of the whereabouts
of Red Kites released within the LIFE
Project Save the Flyers
Willem Bouten, Institute for Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of
Amsterdam
12,30 - 13,00
The reintroduction of the Red Kite
to Britain and Ireland
– progress so far and lessons learned
Ian Carter, Natural England
13,00 - 15,00
buffet
15,00 - 15,30
Distribution and population changes
of the Red Kite in Europe
Adrian Aebischer, Fribourg Natural
History Museum, Switzerland
15,30 - 16,00
The Red Kite in Corsica
Gilles Faggio, Conservatoire
d’espaces naturels Corse
16,00 - 16,30
Monitoring of breeding and wintering
Red Kites in Switzerland
Adrian Aebischer, Fribourg Natural
History Museum, Switzerland
16,30 - 17,00
The Red Kite in Spain, an endangered
species: threats, wintering census
and monitoring
Nicolás Lopéz, SEO-BirdLife
17,00 - 17,30
Discussion and conclusions
Second session, November 6
9,00 - 9,10
Session opening
9,10 - 9,40
Measures for the mitigation of birds electrocution
in Italy. Enel experience
9,40 - 10,00
Impact of electrocution on raptors
in the Upper Albegna Valley (Italy)
10,00 - 10,20
Actions undertaken to reduce birds
electrocution in the Upper Albegna Valley (Italy)
10,20 - 10,40
Species affected by electrocution in the “Gola della
Rossa e di Frasassi” Natural Park (Italy)
10,40 - 11,00
Actions undertaken to reduce birds electrocution
in the “Gola della Rossa e di Frasassi”
Natural Park (Italy)
11,00 - 11,30
11,30 - 12,00
Ecological considerations concerning interactions
between electric lines and birds.
Endesa experience
12,00 - 12,30
Mitigation of power lines’ impact for Eagle
Owl conservation in Sondrio province (Italy)
12,30 - 13,00
Mitigation measures to reduce electrocution
of globally threatened birds in Bulgaria
13,00 - 15,00
15,00 - 15,30
Modification of power lines for the conservation of the Bonelli’s Eagle in Spain
(LIFE12 NAT/E/000701)
15,30 - 16,00
Modification of power lines for the conservation
of the Egyptian Vulture in Fuerteventura island,
Canaries, Spain (LIFE04 NAT/E/000067)
16,00 - 16,30
Modification of dangerous power lines
for birds in Murcia region, Spain
16,30 - 17,00
17,00
• 7th november
Debora Stefani, Head of DTR
Toscana Umbria, Enel Distribuzione
Riccardo Lama, Head of Standardization and Working practices,
Enel Distribuzione
Guido Ceccolini, Biodiversità sas
Monica Cataldo, Head of Network
Development of DTR
Toscana Umbria, Enel Distribuzione
Jacopo Angelini, Comitato
Oasi WWF Bosco di Frasassi
Virgilio Tomassini, Head
of Ancona Area, Enel Distribuzione
coffee break
Antonio Juan Palau, Department
of Environment and Sustainable
Development, Endesa
Enrico Bassi e Maria Ferloni,
Sondrio Province
Svetoslav Spasov, Projects Director,
Bulgarian Society for the Protection
of Birds
buffet
Carlota Viada, LIFE Bonelli’s
technical coordinator en Mallorca,
COFIB-Government
José Antonio Donazar, Doñana
Biological Station, Seville
Emilio Aledo, General Direction of
the Environment, Murcia Region
Discussion and conclusions
Visit to the Museum of Mercury Mines of Monte Amiata (Santa Fiora)
Field trip (Labbro Mountain, Upper Albegna Valley,
Endangered Raptors Centre CERM)
www.lifesavetheflyers.it
LIFE project areas:
• 1 Amiata Area
• 2 “Gola della Rossa e di Frasassi” Natural Park
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Map by Guido Ceccolini
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FLYERS
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