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UNESCO declares falconry to be a living cultural heritage
At a Meeting of the Parties to the 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Nairobi this week, UNESCO has officially designated Falconry on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Read more...
May 12th 2010
ARTIFICIAL NEST PROJECT, MONGOLIA
April 5th 2010
CALIDUS PEREGRINE PROJECT
The first of our satellite tagged Peregrines has started its Spring migration. The bird wintered at Kish Island in the Arabian Gulf and is now heading back north.
April 2nd 2010
ARTIFICIAL NEST PROJECT, MONGOLIA
Due to the extreme weather in central Mongolia, erection of the nests has been delayed until the middle of April. The workers in our Bayan workshop have continued to work throughout the winter, despite the extreme cold, to produce two thousand nests ready for erection.
March 26th 2010
CITES 15th CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES, QATAR 13-25TH MCH 2010
IWC recently attended the CITES conference in Doha to highlight and explain the Artificial Nest Project in Mongolia. Many delegates visited the booth to discuss the project and the expected outcomes. A short film was screened showing the progress of the project so far:
Mongolian Artificial Nest Project - January 2010
Interested delegates attended a side event presented by Dr Andrew Dixon. Delegate and NGO feedback was positive.
March 18th 2010
IWC Falcons Star In Groundbreaking BBC Documentary
Inside the Perfect Predator delivers amazing facts, incredible images and unique insight into the remarkable events that take place inside a predator at the critical moment of attack. The BBC have taken four ultimate predators - the cheetah, great white shark, crocodile and the falcon - and attempt to understand how they accomplish their extraordinary killing feats. To find out, each hunt is revealed in incredible and intimate detail, travelling inside each predator’s body to find out how they achieve the impossible. Why does the great white shark go blind at the moment of attack? As it stalks its prey, the crocodile’s heart all but stops - what keeps it alive? And as a falcon dives, the air should burst its lungs, so how does it survive?
The peregrine falcon footage features a number of blue screen sequences that were filmed at our breeding facility. Without giving too much away a famous London landmark was recreated in one of our aviaries for a 2-month period last year. The presence of Senior Aviculturalist Martyn Paterson during filming ensured the welfare of the birds was top priority. The BBC film crew included top wildlife cameraman Mark Payne-Gill. “Inside the Perfect Predator” screens on Thursday 25th March at 9pm on BBC One.
IWC also operates a small high definition film unit, most recently producing a short film submitted in support of an application to have Falconry recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO
For IWC filming or stock footage enquiries please contact sandy@falcons.co.uk
October 22nd 2008
IWC helps to conserve migratory raptors
IWC have played an active role in bringing countries together in conserving migratory raptors. Through a joint initiative co-lead by the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates governments, measures to protect over 70 species of migratory birds of prey and owls were agreed in Abu Dhabi on the 22nd October 2008 at the Convention on Migratory Species.
A copy of the Birdlife International press release is available in pdf format here.
The full press releases can be found here: