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Close up of owlet2. Close up as a vet catches the owlet3. Close up a veterinary holds and inspects the owlet4. Wide vet holds and inspects the owlet5. Wide...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eGreen Balkans Centre near Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 30th May 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close up of owlet\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up as a vet catches the owlet\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up a veterinary holds and inspects the owlet\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide vet holds and inspects the owlet\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide vet holds and inspects the owlet's wings\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up vet holds the owlet\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up a veterinary puts the owlet into a cage\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE:  (Bulgarian)  Hristina Hristova, Green Balkans director and chief veterinary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Wildlife Rescue centre was created  between 1988 and 1992. The main  goals of the centre are the rehabilitation, medical treatment, recovery and release into the wild of rescued birds and animals. We treat not only birds, we help any kind of animal. Today we had to save a baby squirrel. We've had several thousand patients for all the years that the centre has existed, but every year the number increases.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up Wildlife Rehabilitation and Breeding centre logo\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up as vet feeds a woodpecker\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid vet plays with a baby squirrel\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up vet weighs a baby tortoise\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of a surgery room and a vet treating a stork\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide operation on a stork's broken leg\u003cbr/\u003e15. Close operation on a stork's broken leg\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide framing through a door of operation on stork's broken leg\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid a veterinary gives a solution to a baby owlet\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close up vet gives solution to owlet\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close up a baby Pern eagle (Pernis apivorus) waiting to be treated \u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of a stork at its nest at the rescue centre\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close up a cartoon drawing\u003cbr/\u003e22. Mid of storks in a field at the rescue centre\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of a vet feeding a pelican called Grujo near a small lake at the rescue centre\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: (Bulgarian) Green Balkans veterinary Ivan Klisurov:\u003cbr/\u003e\"At the rescue centre we get many patients mostly birds, wild birds from all around the Balkan country and sometimes from other countries, we heal, keep and feed them. Most of the animals are wounded by cars hit or after fall on the ground from their nests.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid of two young storks at a cell as they receive food\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of a stork nest \u003cbr/\u003e27. Close up of a young stork on the ground \u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid veterinary observes the stork called Totjo\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid veterinary holds the stork called Totjo\u003cbr/\u003e30. Wide of the mother of Totjo\u003cbr/\u003e31. Mid of a 5 day old baby storks at a nest on the ground \u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide of a nest on the ground with two 5 day old baby storks as their mother arrives from right\u003cbr/\u003eSpringtime is one of the busiest seasons for the Green Balkans wildlife organisation, which was set up in protest at one of the former Communist county's most serious ecological disasters. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 1988 more than a million wild birds were killed after the government spread poisonous chemicals across the country to control lemming populations.\u003cbr/\u003e22 years later the organisation is still thriving.\u003cbr/\u003eThis owlet is one of springtime's new arrivals. \u003cbr/\u003eAs she was found during the month of May staff here have named her Maya.\u003cbr/\u003eBased some 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of the capital Sofia the Green Balkans Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Centre is the largest non-governmental nature-conservation organisation in Bulgaria.\u003cbr/\u003eThe organisation boasts 4,000 members and 4 regional centres.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was set up in 1988 after the former Communist regime in Bulgaria spread hundreds of thousands of tons of poisonous chemicals (rodenticides) throughout the country to control lemming populations. This caused the death of more than a million wild birds wintering in Bulgaria. \u003cbr/\u003eIn December of that year, an informal group of students and scientists from Plovdiv University 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of the capital Sofia, and the Ecology Institute, gathered carcasses of dead birds and organised the first environmental demonstration in the country. \u003cbr/\u003eThis small group of nature lovers gained instant recognition and the Green Balkans was established.\u003cbr/\u003eGreen Balkans works together with its partners and donors with the aim of protecting the nature of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula. This involves a number of conservation activities including restoration of wetlands and habitats of rare and threatened species, nature conservation legislation and sustainable development. \u003cbr/\u003eHristina Hristova is the director of Green Balkans and chief veterinary at the rescue centre.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The main  goals of the centre are the rehabilitation, medical treatment, recovery and release into the wild of rescued birds and animals. We treat not only birds, we help any kind of animal. Today we had to save a baby squirrel. We've had several thousand patients for all the years that the centre has existed, but every year the number increases,\" she says.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe centre focuses on the rehabilitation of injured wildlife, and specialises in the treatment of threatened and endangered raptors (birds of prey). \u003cbr/\u003eIt is an official CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora) centre and is responsible for the care of wild animals involved in illegal trading in Bulgaria. \u003cbr/\u003eIt is also a aiming to increase the populations of some species (Imperial Eagle, Griffon Vulture) and the reintroduce others into the wild (Bearded Vulture, Black Vulture). \u003cbr/\u003eAnnually, approximately 600 wild animals (mostly raptors) are treated at the centre, with approximately 40% successfully released back into the wild. \u003cbr/\u003eCoupled with the regional office in the town of Stara Zagora the centre has an active environmental and biodiversity 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