Dorottya Gaál, Author at Fauna & Flora

Summer internship diaries I. We went on an internship in Nagybajom

Gábor Piri's report on the two-week internship in Nagybajom

Paddling, bonfire, quizzes and games - the last days of the camp

By Thursday we had reached our last full day of camp. As before, we had a wide range of experiences and knowledge, with hunting and game species, native bird species, and floodplain life and farming being the main topics of our programmes. Today we paddled the Danube again, and in the morning we canoed along the Outer Béda to learn about the characteristics of wetlands, for example, what percentage of the [...]

Barkóscinege adventure - another camp experience

On the first day of our conservation summer camp, we met our enthusiastic and curious campers, with whom we set off the next day to explore the surrounding habitat and local wildlife, as we wrote in detail about our initial camp experience in a previous post. The next day of the camp was christened "bird of the year adventure" after the bird of the year, as we dedicated the whole day to native bird species. After an early wake-up call, we [...]

Welcome to Békáspuszta - our first conservation camp has started

Sunday marked the start of our first summer camp on nature conservation, organised jointly with the Csányi Foundation. A total of 12 children stayed at our campsite in Békáspuszta. We spent the first day playing, mainly getting to know each other and our environment. As part of the latter, we experienced the diversity of nature around us through the use of our different senses and learned about biodiversity, and then we also tested [...]

Call for proposals: voluntary activities

Our Foundation invites applications for volunteer work in the summer children's nature camp in Békáspusztán, organised jointly with the Csányi Foundation between 13-18 August 2023. During the camp, a total of 12 children in grades 5-8 will learn about the conservation importance of hunting, working with hunting elves, and will have the opportunity to study the [...]

IUGB 2023 - get involved!

From 28-31 August 2023, the 36th Congress of the International Union of Wildlife Biologists, IUGB 2023, will take place in Warsaw.The main theme of the conference will be "Quo vadis Wildlife Management? The future of wildlife management in changing social and environmental realities". Our foundation offers a general open call for applications for university students to participate in scientific and professional conferences [...]