Once again this year, Shabla turned into a colourful stage of wind, music and nature! A team from Green Balkans took part in the 15th-anniversary edition of the Shabla Kite Festival. This celebration brings together people from different parts of the world through their love of the sky, freedom, and the beautiful nature of Coastal Dobrogea.
This year’s festival was even more impressive, featuring kite flyers from eight countries, spectacular flying creations and a rich musical programme organised by Jazz FM. Amid this colourful atmosphere, another group of “flying” inhabitants of Dobrogea also took centre stage – the birds.
The Green Balkans team participated as part of the “Long-term Conservation Programme for the Red-breasted Goose in Bulgaria”. For festival visitors, we prepared something both unusual and impressive – life-size models of bird species that occur and winter specifically in the Coastal Dobrogea region. Thus, among the kites filling the sky, visitors had the opportunity to come face to face with some of the area’s real feathered inhabitants – represented in their actual size.
Why are these birds important? Where do they spend the winter? How can we recognise them? What threatens them? And how can each of us help protect them? These were just some of the questions that turned our festival encounter into a journey through the nature of Dobrogea.
Our idea was simple – to draw attention to the richness of the nature around us and to show that getting to know nature is the first step towards protecting it. Coastal Dobrogea is an exceptionally important area for birds. Throughout the different seasons, numerous species can be observed here, while for some the region is a vital stopover or wintering ground – including the endangered Red-breasted Goose. That is why it is important to know who our wild neighbours are, understand their needs and protect the places on which their survival depends.
The Kite Festival showed once again that conservation messages can reach people in many different ways – even with a little imagination, a few impressive life-size bird models and a strong desire to tell an important story. And what better place to talk about birds than a place where the sky is filled with flying colours?
We would like to thank the organisers – Karon Limen Foundation, Shabla Municipality and the Green Educational Centre in Shabla – as well as all the visitors who stopped by, asked questions, shared their impressions and showed curiosity about the wildlife of Dobrogea.
Let us get to know our nature. Let us love it. And, above all, let us protect it. Because the sky of Dobrogea is home not only to kites. It is home to birds, too.
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This year’s festival was even more impressive, featuring kite flyers from eight countries, spectacular flying creations and a rich musical programme organised by Jazz FM. Amid this colourful atmosphere, another group of “flying” inhabitants of Dobrogea also took centre stage – the birds.
The Green Balkans team participated as part of the “Long-term Conservation Programme for the Red-breasted Goose in Bulgaria”. For festival visitors, we prepared something both unusual and impressive – life-size models of bird species that occur and winter specifically in the Coastal Dobrogea region. Thus, among the kites filling the sky, visitors had the opportunity to come face to face with some of the area’s real feathered inhabitants – represented in their actual size.
Why are these birds important? Where do they spend the winter? How can we recognise them? What threatens them? And how can each of us help protect them? These were just some of the questions that turned our festival encounter into a journey through the nature of Dobrogea.
Our idea was simple – to draw attention to the richness of the nature around us and to show that getting to know nature is the first step towards protecting it. Coastal Dobrogea is an exceptionally important area for birds. Throughout the different seasons, numerous species can be observed here, while for some the region is a vital stopover or wintering ground – including the endangered Red-breasted Goose. That is why it is important to know who our wild neighbours are, understand their needs and protect the places on which their survival depends.
The Kite Festival showed once again that conservation messages can reach people in many different ways – even with a little imagination, a few impressive life-size bird models and a strong desire to tell an important story. And what better place to talk about birds than a place where the sky is filled with flying colours?
We would like to thank the organisers – Karon Limen Foundation, Shabla Municipality and the Green Educational Centre in Shabla – as well as all the visitors who stopped by, asked questions, shared their impressions and showed curiosity about the wildlife of Dobrogea.
Let us get to know our nature. Let us love it. And, above all, let us protect it. Because the sky of Dobrogea is home not only to kites. It is home to birds, too.
