Comments:

• Thanks to the joint efforts of Swarovski Optik and "Le Balkan-Bulgaria" Foundation the pelican colony this year was rescued.
• The seven pelican nests built on the artificial wooden platform are sufficient prove for the effectiveness of the chosen method. It shows how the future management efforts should be oriented.
• Despite of the flooding, the 1999’s breeding season was successful thanks to the installation of the thick "sandwiches" made of reed sheaves.
• The breeding success of the colony was very high – 1.14 at 0.87 on the average (for the period 1955-1998).

Conclusions:

• The measures taken in the autumn of 1998 were absolutely necessary for the survival of the colony and have to be repeated,
• The artificial wooden platform has to be enlarged twice,
• The fence has to be moved back for at least 15-20 m, to increase the breeding place.
• An artificial raft anchored in the open water near the existing colony has to be built as an alternative new breeding islet,
• The threats and limiting factors in the pelicans feeding ground have to be investigated

- In the neighboring Romanian wetlands

- In the micro reservoirs around Srebarna lake.

• The public awareness about the pelican conservation project has to be increased. An important part of this promotion is the publishing of Branta magazine as a basic informative tool of Le Balkan International.