Our Youth Development Fund was launched in 2019 and has gone from strength to strength. To date, we have supported projects in Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Lebanon and Turkey. We’ve received feedback from a number of project...
The 2023 Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund has been awarded to WWF-Türkiye for the project “Back to the Migration for Northern Bald Ibis in Türkiye.” The Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita) occurs as two disjunct sub-populations, with the...
Our most recent Sandgrouse (44/1) was a special issue featuring the proceedings of an international conference, ‘advancing the conservation of the Great Bustard in Asia.’ The research papers from Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, clearly highlight...
OSME members may have noticed that they are yet to receive their second issue of Sandgrouse for 2022. Publication of Sandgrouse 44 (2) has been delayed for various reasons and we’ve now decided to wait until early in the New Year...
The Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund is now open for applications, with an extended deadline until the 16th of December, 2022. The fund supports research projects that lead to clear conservation benefits for a Globally Threatened species...
Our next online meeting will take place on Saturday, 19th November 2022. The meeting will be held using Zoom, and registration is now open. The meeting is free to attend, and all are welcome. Please register here:...
We will be holding this digitally via Zoom on Saturday, 26th November 2022, from 10.00 – 11.00 (GMT). You can register for the meeting using the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpcumpqDIiGNNOS4ogkEdI9dZmol_cEg4R Copies of the draft minutes of the 43rd...
With our online meetings proving very popular with our members and supporters, we have decided to continue with these for the foreseeable future. Previous online meetings have been attended by members from all parts of the OSME...
OSME, in collaboration with the Eurasian Bustard Alliance, announces a special grant competition focused on projects supporting the conservation of the Great Bustard within the OSME region. Project Criteria Projects must take place inside the OSME region....
After a successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, the Batumi Raptor Count team have confirmed they will continue their world-leading monitoring programme this autumn. Counters are required for a minimum of two weeks between August 12th and October...
The 2022 Trevor Poyser Species Conservation Fund grant has been awarded to the Biodiversity Research and Conservation Center Community Trust (BRCC) in Kazakhstan for the “protection of Saker Falcon and Egyptian Vulture in the Karatau Mountains, South...
The OSME online Winter Meeting: 29th January 2022 We’ll be holding an online Winter Meeting on Saturday 29th January. The meeting is free, and all members and non-members are invited to attend. The full programme is now...
Peter Flint & Colin Richardson are preparing the third edition of The Birds of Cyprus (further details on ResearchGate). It will be a comprehensive and completely revised avifauna of the whole island of Cyprus to be published within the BOC (formerly...
Since the coronavirus pandemic started back in early 2020 OSME have held several of our meetings online and they have been hugely popular with our members and supporters. The feedback from the online meetings has been overwhelmingly...