Balgarianovinite.com Police in Karlovo (central Bulgaria) have arrested a 36-year-old man for the poisoning of eight vultures at the foot of Mount Botev in the Balkan Mountains, the Plovdiv Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry said Friday. Officers from the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime also took part in the operation.
The detainee has confessed to the crime. Evidence of the poisoning has been found.
On August 19, the Green Balkans Wildlife Rescue Centre reported that the number of dead birds found had risen to nine. The victims included a pair of cinereous vultures from the Kotel Balkan range, a pair of cinereous vultures from the Vratsa Balkan range, one cinereous vulture from the Eastern Rhodopes, Boev — the first bearded vulture released in Bulgaria — two griffon vultures and a crow.
Boev was the first young bearded vulture to be released in the wild in Bulgaria. He was donated by Czechia and released in the Sinite Kamani Nature Park in May 2025 as part of an international project to restore the species’ nesting population in this country, implemented by eight organizations in Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and Romania. Boev’s transmitter data showed that the bird then crossed eight European countries, covering 14,100 km in 123 days, before returning to Bulgaria on August 13, 2026, Green Balkans said.
One of the poisoned black vultures was equipped with a transmitter, which helped find the site of the incident – a hard-to-reach area of the Park’s Kalofer section, close to the winter hiking route from Panitsite to Mt. Botev. The bird was donated by Spain to support Bulgarian wildlife as part of a project to restore the Black vulture’s population in the Rhodope Mountains.
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