A total of 2,229,719 euros has been allocated to a project to ensure the protection of the lesser spotted eagle, reports the TVNET portal HERE.

The main focus areas of the project are the protection of nesting sites and the management of feeding grounds in specific "pilot territories".

During the project, seminars and practical workshops will be held, and the wider public will also be introduced to the lesser spotted eagle and issues surrounding the protection of the species. Residents will also be able to provide information on observed lesser spotted eagle nests. The "ELM Media" studio will produce a documentary about the lesser spotted eagle and its conservation, which is scheduled for release in 2020.

Given the impressive funding of 2.2 million, it is expected that the film will feature explosions and other special effects, like in the film The Hobbit, where the dwarves stuck in a tree were saved by none other than eagles. You can see these unforgettable shots in the attached file. Let us hope "ELM Media" manages to be just as effective :)

The chief flow-limiter of the State Audit Office's All-Flow Supervision Department read the report in confusion: “Procurement of game from Latvian foxes, owls and lynx, and the supervision thereof, to ensure comfortable, undisturbed nesting for lesser spotted eagles”. Over the course of three years, the wild animals and creatures of Latvia that eat the same food as lesser spotted eagles are now expected to share. For eagles to be protected, to simply incubate their eggs, and for their numbers to grow, it is necessary for others to provide them with food. This has been decreed by a passionate bird-carer in Brussels. (Although malicious tongues suggest that her previous connection to birds was limited to feeding pigeons at the Doge's Palace in Venice, but who believes malicious tongues in the 21st century????) Consequently, a new position is planned in the job classification system – predator food supervisor and confiscator. Most hunting predators – feathered and furry – will be equipped with electronic rings, and as soon as, let's say, a fox catches a mouse or a shrew, a signal will be sent and the prey confiscated! That is what the regulations foresee! So it shall be!
Once a month, all lesser spotted eagle nests are to be cleaned – professional cleaners with vacuum cleaners and Carlson-style propellers (to lift off into the air to reach the nest) will visit each nest – to clean, blow through with an air jet, and tidy up if anything is amiss.
In turn, the fledglings will be taught to fly and nest by professionals cast out from the Rīga Circus and the ranks of animal tamers – all the eagles will have to do is breed, lay eggs, and incubate. And that for the next four years. A fairy tale!
A mere 6 million more (not six million plastic bottles, but six million rustling euros) is earmarked for new projects in the future.
The plan there – come what may – is to definitely protect the condors too, which are so rare in Latvia that no one has ever spotted them. But – never – until now! If we protect them and wait, who knows, we might spot them, and quite soon too! In the next four hundred years! If not, we will write a project about opening European zoo cages so that we can have them too! Condors, ostriches, penguins.
In connection with the condors, environmental specialists together with construction workers have planned a Gaiziņš-raising campaign – once a year, on 22 July, all of Latvia's bag-carriers and pack-haulers will gather at the summit of Gaiziņš with bags filled with earth, pebbles, gravel, crushed stone, or peat, dump the contents, sing “Oh, little eagle, my little eagle!” together, and Gaiziņš will thus rise by a few or more metres a year – and so on – year after year. Lo and behold, there will be a place for a condor to perch!
But that is in the future!
This year and the next ones – lesser spotted eagles! Brace yourselves – foxes, lynx, owls! Multiply, mice, rats, hamsters, chipmunks, gophers!
(There is no news yet on whether a mouse caught at night is to be confiscated from an eagle-owl or a pygmy owl. We shall see!)