The Great White Egret, that was chosen the symbol of the Hungarian environment conservation, is incubating in the Kiskunság National Park, in reeds covered with water sufficiently, reserved for their needs. Its growing population is strictly protected these days, but it wasn’t always like that. The population was endangered for centuries by the trend of wearing fancy feathers. Due to this reason, the Great White Egret almost died out by the end of the 19th century. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (England) – the biggest public environmental protection organization of Europe - was established for reducing the trading of fancy feathers. In Hungary, the first guard of environment was applied for guarding the egrets in 1922. Owing to the strict regulations, one of Middle-Europe’s biggest population of Great White Egret lives in the territory of Kiskunság National Park. In the years of plenty of nutriment, their number reaches the 700 pairs.
